Elder Abuse.

Elder abuse, defined as "harm inflicted on an older person in a relationship where there is an expectation of trust, and/or when the person is targeted based on age or disability," can be challenging for clinicians to identify. Radiologists can help raise appropriate suspicion for elder abuse based on a patient's imaging. This article reviews common distributions and radiographic patterns of injury sustained in physical elder abuse.

Understanding Ballistic Injuries.

Understanding the pathophysiology of a disease allows physicians to make a diagnosis, alter its natural course, and develop and implement appropriate preventative and management strategies. With ballistic injuries, an understanding of how the mechanism of injury translates to the injuries observed makes it possible to make sense of what can, at times be a complex imaging appearance and mitigate against the long-term complications of gunshot wounds. In this article, the authors describe the different types of ballistic projectiles, their mechanism of injury as well as the injury patterns they cause.

The Short and the Long of It: Transitioning to a Blended Longitudinal Curriculum in Radiology.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to demonstrate that the transition from a stand-alone radiology clerkship block to a longitudinally integrated radiology curriculum leverages newer teaching tools favored by today's learners.

Methods: In 2013 and 2014, medical students attended a dedicated 1-week radiology clerkship course. In 2015, the block clerkship model for radiology transitioned to a vertically integrated curriculum.

Concomitant calciphylaxis and COVID-19 associated thrombotic retiform purpura.

While initial reports regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) focused on its pulmonary manifestations, more recent literature describes multisystem abnormalities related to its associated microvascular angiopathy. Calciphylaxis is a rare systemic condition characterized by tissue necrosis in the setting of systemic microvascular calcifications. Both COVID-19 and calciphylaxis are procoagulant diagnoses associated with vascular-mediated cutaneous findings.

Imaging of chronic male pelvic pain: what the abdominal imager should know.

Chronic pelvic pain is an important but underrecognized cause of morbidity in men. While there is abundant literature discussing female pelvic pain and the diagnostic role of imaging, much less attention has been given to imaging of non-gynecologic causes of chronic pelvic pain. Chronic pelvic pain in men can be a challenge to diagnose as pain may arise from visceral, musculoskeletal, or neurovascular pathology.

Effect of abdominopelvic abscess drain size on drainage time and probability of occlusion.

Background: The purpose of this study is to determine whether larger abdominopelvic abscess drains reduce the time required for abscess resolution or the probability of tube occlusion.

Methods: 144 consecutive patients who underwent abscess drainage at a single institution were reviewed retrospectively.

Results: Larger initial drain size did not reduce drainage time, drain occlusion, or drain exchanges (P > .

Postoperative complications after thoracic surgery for lung cancer.

Unlabelled: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Several surgical techniques are currently used as part of the standard of care for early-stage lung cancer. Differentiating normal postoperative changes from complications is essential in the management of these patients.

Semiautomated CT-Based Quantification of Donor Kidney Volume Applied to a Predictive Model of Outcomes in Renal Transplantation.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the use of semiautomated CT-based quantification of renal graft volume as a preoperative predictor of graft function.

Materials And Methods: All transplants over a 3-year period in which donors underwent CT and for which recipient outcomes were available were included. Two blinded readers used a commercially available reconstruction tool to independently measure donated kidney cortical volume and total parenchymal kidney volume.

Spindle cell oncocytoma of the adenohypophysis: a case report illustrating its natural history with 8-year observation and a review of the literature.

Spindle cell oncocytoma of the adenohypophysis is a rare tumor classified by the World Health Organization as benign with no malignant features. Recent publications have questioned its identity as a benign tumor, as six postsurgical recurrences of spindle cell oncocytoma (SCO) have been reported. This case is the first to illustrate the natural history of the disease due to delayed intervention, as the tumor showed virtually no growth.