A 41-year-old male sawmill worker suffered blunt abdominal trauma while loading logs onto an edger. Initial abdominal CT scan showed subcapsular hepatic hematoma encompassing about 50% of the liver ...

Recent findings suggest CT scans could be a major cancer risk, but some critics don’t think the estimates add up.

LITTLE FALLS, N.J., July 7-- Clinicians may miss a substantial number of new abdominal aortic dilations on CT scans, researchers have found. Clinical teams didn't record about 60% of dilations within ...

The presence of plaque on an abdominal CT scan is a strong predictor of coronary artery disease and mortality, according to a new study. Researchers found that patients are nearly 60 percent at risk ...

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Polymorphism, Smoking Behavior, and Tobacco-Related Cancer and Lung and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Cohort Study We used population-based administrative data sets to ...

Researchers estimated that the use of CT scans in 2023 would cause 102,700 lifetime cancers, including 93,000 cancers in adults and 9700 cancers in children. Radiation from computed tomography (CT) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The endocrine consult service obtained additional history. She was told she had an adrenal nodule several years ...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Women who have undergone computed tomography imaging may be at slightly higher risk for pregnancy loss and birth defects in later pregnancies, according to findings from a ...

Strangely, it didn't seem to make much difference. "They find that the increased risk resulting from a head CT scan is pretty similar to the increased risk from a pelvis CT scan," says Derek Hill, ...