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Research

Research is not mandatory. However, residents are encouraged to submit abstracts and papers and to present their work at local and national meetings. Expenses and time off for conference presentations are covered by the department.

Recent Scholarly Activity

 

2007 ARRS Educational Exhibits:

  • The Most Common ER Presentations of the Non-traumatic Acute Pelvis:  An Illustrative Review
  • The Most Common ER Presentations of the Non-traumatic Acute Abdomen:  An Illustrative Review
  • Ectopic Pregnancy: A Pictorial Review
  • Sonohysterography - An Illustrative Primer in the Evaulation of the Endometrium

2006 IRB-Approved:

  • On-going Research of Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department with 64-Slice MDCT Coronary Angiography

 

2006 RSNA Educational Exhibits:

  • Volumetric 64-Slice 64-MDCT Dose Reduction Strategies: Designing Safe, Optimal Protocols
  • Dynamic Imaging of the Pelvic Floor: Anatomy and Approach to Defecography
  • Normal and Variant Intracranial Venous Anatomy: An Illustrative Review
  • Understanding Anoxic Brain Injury: An Illustrative Review of CT and MR Findings

 

2006 ARRS Educational Exhibits:

  • Volumetric 64-Slice MDCT Dose: What Every Radiologist Should Know
  • Complications in LRYGBP: Pearls and Pitfalls
  • Volumetric 64 Slice CT Analysis of Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: An Illustrative Primer
  • Downward Displacement of the Transverse Colon: A CT Finding Associated with Internal Hernias Through the Transverse Mesocolon After Gastric Bypass
  • CT of Colitis: An Illustrative Review

 

2006 NASCI Poster Presentations:

  • Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department with 64-Slice MDCT Coronary Angiography: Initial Experience at a CommunityHospital
  • Extreme Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum Mimicking Right Atrial Myxoma

 

2006 SIR:

  • Annual Meeting Film Panel Case: Radiation-induced Cerebral Aneurysms. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2006; 17: 233-251
  • “Caroli’s Variant” Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia of the Liver.  Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2006, 17(7): 1091-4

 

2006 ACR Case in Point:

  • Spigelian Hernia
  • Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

 

2005 ASNR Excerpta Extraordinaire:

  • Rosai-Dorfman Disease Presenting as a Frontal Lobe Mass

 

2005 ACR Case in Point:

  • Colloid Cyst

 

2005 Radiological Clinics of North America:

  • Imaging Evaluation of Pediatric Mediastinal Masses

 

2004 RSNA Educational Exhibits:

  • Multimodality Evaluation of Benign Osseous Lesions in the Pediatric Population, including Osteoid Osteoma, Chondroblastoma, Aneurysmal Bone Cyst, and Unicameral Bone Cyst

 

2004 American Journal of Radiology:

  • MRI Diagnosis of Subpubic Cartilaginous Cyst. AJR. 2004; 182:144-146

 

2003 Clinics of Nuclear Medicine:

  • Fortuitous Detection of Papillary Carcinoma of the Thyroid With F-18 Positron Emission Tomography in a patient with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.  Clin Nuc Med 2003: 28(9):782-783