Determination of minimum effective height of transparent radiation face shielding for fluoroscopy.

During interventional procedures, the vast majority of scatter radiation originates from the patient and table and travels in all directions in straight lines. Because the operator's head is much higher than the patient and at an angle upward and to the side of the patient (not directly above), the scatter received by the operator's head is projected in an upward angle. Thus a face shield could potentially be lower than the object it is shielding, e.

Endovascular management of suprascapular artery pseudoaneurysm.

Pseudoaneurysms can be debilitating for patients and occasionally life threatening. Many imaging modalities may be used to assess and define these vascular lesions, and various methods have been employed in their treatment. Our patient suffered trauma to his left shoulder resulting in fracture of his clavicle following an automobile accident and subsequently was found to have a pseudoaneurysm of his left suprascapular artery on imaging.

Improved demonstration of cartilage narrowing in the knee joint using standing PA flexed radiographs.

Objective: To compare standing PA flexed (SPAF) knee radiographs of the knees with standing full-extension AP(SAP) radiographs for demonstration of narrowing of the articular cartilage of the knee joint and the presence and size of osteophytes and to determine if sclerosis is a predictor of the severity of joint space narrowing.

Design: 220 knees in 110 consecutive patients visiting the orthopaedic clinic with knee pain and having both SPAF radiographs and SAP radiographs at the same visit were evaluated by a musculoskeletal radiologist for cartilage narrowing in the knee joint using a scale 0-3 with 0= normal and 3= bone on bone. Osteophytes were also graded 0-3 and sclerosis as present or absent.

Percutaneous augmentation of the superior pubic ramus with polymethyl methacrylate: treatment of acute traumatic and chronic insufficiency fractures.

The injection of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) is a minimally invasive image-guided procedure that is typically used to treat vertebral body fractures due to osteoporosis or neoplastic involvement. The injection of PMMA into various other locations including the sacrum, acetabulum, pedicles, femur and tibia has been reported previously, and these procedures have, overall, been highly effective at alleviating pain and discomfort. Although the injection of PMMA into the vertebral body is a very common procedure that has been performed for over 2 decades for the percutaneous treatment of vertebral body fractures, the percutaneous injection of PMMA has not been reported in the English literature as treatment for superior pubic ramus fractures.