Publications by authors named "Leah Waldman"

Despite many advancements in gender equality in multiple professions, radiology continues to struggle with disparities in representation. This paper proposes a threestep approach to further address the gender equality issue within radiology, focusing on early exposure, dispelling misconceptions and promoting early and meaningful female mentorship.

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The sacroiliac joints (SIJ) play a pivotal role in pelvic stability and load transmission. SIJ-related disorders can pose a diagnostic challenge because of complex anatomy, non-specific imaging findings, and overlapping symptomatology with other lower back conditions. Broadly, SIJ pathology can be divided into the following categories: infectious, inflammatory, degenerative, mechanical, traumatic, and neoplastic.

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  • * It covers different imaging modalities such as radiographs, CT, ultrasound, MRI, and nuclear medicine, explaining how they assist in evaluating conditions like cellulitis, abscesses, and osteomyelitis.
  • * The discussion also includes how to distinguish between infectious and noninfectious causes of swelling and edema in the affected areas.
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  • Imaging evaluation for lower extremity infections is challenging due to factors like underlying health conditions and atypical infection types.
  • Key conditions that increase risk include diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, neuropathic arthropathy, and intravenous drug use, making it hard to distinguish between infections and other diseases.
  • The text also reviews various atypical infections (viral, fungal, etc.) and common conditions that can mimic lower extremity infections, such as chronic osteomyelitis and gout, along with their distinguishing characteristics.
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common inherited peripheral polyneuropathy, resulting in length-dependent motor and sensory deficiencies. Asymmetric nerve involvement in the lower extremities creates a muscle imbalance, which manifests as a characteristic cavovarus deformity of the foot and ankle. This deformity is widely considered to be the most debilitating symptom of the disease, causing the patient to feel unstable and limiting mobility.

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Purpose To determine whether photon-counting CT (PCCT) acquisition of whole-body CT images provides similar quantitative image quality and reader satisfaction for multiple myeloma screening at lower radiation doses than does standard energy-integrating detector (EID) CT. Materials and Methods Patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance prospectively underwent clinical noncontrast whole-body CT with EID and same-day PCCT (August-December 2021). Five axial scan locations were evaluated by seven radiologists, with 11% (eight of 70) of images including osteolytic lesions.

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Haloperidol and olanzapine are first and second-generation antipsychotic (neuroleptic) medications approved to treat schizophrenia. Glutamate signaling is known to play an important role in the manifestation of schizophrenia symptoms, as phencyclidine, a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist, replicates and exasperates these symptoms. While initial reports show that neuroleptic treatments can impact aspects of NMDAR expression, there is little attention on the interaction between neuroleptics and dietary conditions.

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Objective: To determine the prevalence of sacroiliitis among patients who have been referred for MR arthrography.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective search identified 130 consecutive MR arthrograms of the hip performed on a 1.5T Siemens Avanto at our institution from August 2013 to August 2014.

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Background: Preoperative abdominal computed tomographic angiograms for free flap breast reconstruction improve operative safety and efficiency, but incidental findings are common and potentially affect management. In addition, the authors hypothesized that patients with genetic mutations might have a higher rate of significant findings. The authors present the largest series of computed tomographic angiogram "incidentalomas" in these two populations and an evidence-based algorithm for managing common findings.

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Background: "Athletic pubalgia," a term that has gained acceptance over "sports hernia," is more common in men than women; however, it represents a significant source of morbidity for patients of both sexes. Inconsistent terminology surrounding this entity poses a diagnostic challenge and makes studying the populations at risk difficult.

Purpose: To review a case series of women with athletic pubalgia by analyzing their presentations, concomitant pathologies, and surgical outcomes.

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Rhabdomyosarcoma is a malignant tumor of the soft tissues which preferentially affects the pediatric population. Neonatal rhabdomyosarcoma is rare, and much of the published literature concerning this entity consists of isolated case reports and small case series. Recent work involving the classification of rhabdomyosarcoma has helped to delineate prognostic information based on gene rearrangements.

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Radionuclide bone scanning has been used routinely in the evaluation of bone pathology for decades. The greatest strength of the procedure is its extreme sensitivity for bone metabolism, allowing it to distinguish between active and inactive bony abnormalities. The downside of this reliance on abnormal bone turnover is the relative lack of anatomical detail compared with ever-improving CT and MRI technology.

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The discordance between genome size and the complexity of eukaryotes can partly be attributed to differences in repeat density. The Muller F element (∼5.2 Mb) is the smallest chromosome in , but it is substantially larger (>18.

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Fixed drug eruption (FDE) is a cutaneous reaction to a medication that recurs in the same fairly localized site with each exposure to the offending drug. The classical histopathologic findings in FDE consist of an interface dermatitis with predominantly lymphocytic inflammatory cell infiltrate. An unusual case of FDE in a 27-year-old pregnant woman who presented with widespread lesions and a predominantly neutrophilic infiltrate on histopathologic examination is reported.

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