This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – retroperitoneal sarcoma Patients with soft tissue sarcoma often complain of localized pressure and increasing pain. In addition to sonography, contrast-enhanced CT and MRI imaging are particularly informative. If there is a suspicion…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Giant cell arteritis: classification and treatment What’s new? Das vom American College of Rheumatology (ACR) und der European League against Rheumatology (EULAR) gemeinsam entwickelte und 2022 veröffentlichte Update der Klassifikationskriterien für Riesenzellarteriitis trägt insbesondere den Fortschritten im Bereich…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Dysphagia – Upside-Down Stomach An upside-down stomach, also called a thoracic stomach, is relatively rare. Mostly older people are affected, but not exclusively. It often takes a long time before the correct diagnosis is…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis dysphagia – cervical and intrathoracic lipoma Benign adipose-derived tumors from mature adipocytes are among the most common mesenchymal tumors, but are uncommon in cervical and intrathoracic soft tissues. Imaging reveals fat-equivalent density values in the smoothly…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Cardiovascular medicine Effective treatment management for optimized outcome More than 30,000 professionals from 174 countries addressed the results of current research at the ESC Congress in Barcelona this year. Topics ranged from prevention to imaging, digital health and…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Dysphagia – an interdisciplinary challenge: case casuistry. In previous issues of HAUSARZT PRAXIS, a broad spectrum of possible causes of dysphagia has been presented in this section, and case studies have been used to explore these in…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cardiomyopathy From risk to therapy – imaging in individual risk management When we talk about cardiomyopathy, we can be talking about different clinical pictures with different causes and symptoms. The actual cause may be genetic, acquired, or a mixture of both.…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Palpable mammary finding How do you recognize benign changes? Benign breast lesions are extremely common. Mammography is predominantly used for imaging. An overview of classification and image-based diagnosis.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis An interdisciplinary challenge Diagnoses cannot always be made with certainty after taking a medical history and performing clinical and laboratory examinations. Sometimes, further imaging clarification is required.
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Imaging in epilepsy New approaches in research and practice New developments in computer-aided data classification, machine learning methods, development of specific tracer substances, and clinical application of high-field MR technology at field strengths <3 Tesla are leading to increasingly rapid…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Sports injuries The agony of choice in imaging It may sound a bit old-fashioned, but with any medical problem, the classic order applies: history, clinical examination, additional clarifications. Imaging therefore comes in third place if there is already…
