Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change.

In January 2015, the US Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHC) established a new national vision that all women and men of reproductive age will achieve optimal health and wellness, fostering a healthy life course for them and any children they may have. Achieving this vision presents both challenges and opportunities. This manuscript describes the reasons why the US needs to prioritize preconception health as well as its efforts historically to advance change.

Ensuring excision of intraductal lesions: marker placement at time of ductography.

Rationale And Objectives: To propose grid coordinate marker placement for patients with suspicious ductogram findings occult on routine workup. To compare the success of marker placement and wire localization (WL) with ductogram-guided WL.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective search of radiology records identified all patients referred for ductography between January 2001 and May 2008.

Imaging of emphysematous pyelonephritis: self-assessment module.

The educational objectives for this self-assessment module are for the participant to exercise, self-assess, and improve his or her understanding of the role of imaging in the diagnosis of emphysematous pyelonephritis and the impact of CT findings on the management of emphysematous pyelonephritis.

Sonographic evaluation of Lisfranc ligament injuries.

Objective: This study characterized the sonographic appearances of Lisfranc injuries.

Methods: Sonography reports (2000-2007) were searched for "Lisfranc," resulting in 10 patients. Sonographic images of affected and asymptomatic contralateral feet were reviewed, recording the thickness of the dorsal ligament between the first (medial) cuneiform (C1) and second metatarsal (M2) ligaments, distance between C1 and M2, and change in this distance with weight bearing, hyperemia, and fractures.