Core curriculum for medical physicists in radiology. Recommendations from an EFOMP/ESR working group.

Some years ago it was decided that a European curriculum should be developed for medical physicists professionally engaged in the support of clinical diagnostic imaging departments. With this in mind, EFOMP (European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics) in association with ESR (European Society of Radiology) nominated an expert working group. This curriculum is now to hand.

Multimodality imaging in Europe: a survey by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the European Society of Radiology (ESR).

Purpose: Multimodality imaging represents an area of rapid growth with important professional implication for both nuclear medicine physicians and radiologists throughout Europe. As a preliminary step for future action aimed at improving the quality and accessibility of PET/SPECT/CT multimodality imaging practice in Europe, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the European Society of Radiology (ESR) performed a survey among the individual membership of both societies to obtain information on the status of multimodality imaging in their facilities and their future visions on training for combined modalities.

Methods: A questionnaire was forwarded to all individual members of the EANM and ESR.

Aggressive multiple myeloma presenting as mesenteric panniculitis.

Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare disease of the bowel mesentery, characterized by tumor-like infiltration by chronic inflammatory cells, fat necrosis, and fibrosis. Reported cases cited clinical presentation ranging from abdominal pain to fever of unknown origin, the majority of which were idiopathic and associated with a benign prognosis. We report the case of a 43-yr-old male who presented with malaise, weight loss, microcytic anemia, and a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

The beneficial role of transvaginal ultrasound in the preoperative characterisation of dermoid cysts of the ovary.

The advent of transvaginal sonography has improved the ability of radiologists to visualise both ovaries and has facilitated the preoperative characterisation of many of these lesions. We describe the beneficial role of transvaginal sonography in the accurate preoperative characterisation of dermoid cysts of the ovary in two patients and describe the characteristic features of ovarian dermoid cysts.