Early detection of severe injuries after major trauma by immediate total-body CT scouts.

Introduction: Evaluation of immediate total-body CT (iTBCT) scouts during primary trauma care could be clinically relevant for early detection and treatment of specific major injuries. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic usefulness of TBCT scouts in detecting life-threatening chest and pelvic injuries.

Methods: All patients who underwent an iTBCT during their primary trauma assessment in one trauma center between April 2011 and November 2014 were retrospectively included.

Melioidosis in travelers: An analysis of Dutch melioidosis registry data 1985-2018.

Background: Melioidosis, caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, is an opportunistic infection across the tropics. Here, we provide a systematic overview of imported human cases in a non-endemic country over a 25-year period.

Methods: All 55 Dutch microbiology laboratories were contacted in order to identify all B.

Breast magnetic resonance elastography: a review of clinical work and future perspectives.

This review on magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) of the breast provides an overview of available literature and describes current developments in the field of breast MRE, including new transducer technology for data acquisition and multi-frequency-derived power-law behaviour of tissue. Moreover, we discuss the future potential of breast MRE, which goes beyond its original application as an additional tool in differentiating benign from malignant breast lesions. These areas of ongoing and future research include MRE for pre-operative tumour delineation, staging, monitoring and predicting response to treatment, as well as prediction of the metastatic potential of primary tumours.

Split bolus technique in polytrauma: a prospective study on scan protocols for trauma analysis.

Background: For the evaluation of severely injured trauma patients a variety of total body computed tomography (CT) scanning protocols exist. Frequently multiple pass protocols are used. A split bolus contrast protocol can reduce the number of passes through the body, and thereby radiation exposure, in this relatively young and vitally threatened population.

[Removal of fibroadenomas by vacuum-assisted biopsy].

Clinically the removal of fibroadenomas is not indicated. However, there are patients who insist upon fibroadenoma removal. An alternative to surgery is the vacuum-assisted biopsy system.