Background Community-acquired pneumonia is a leading infectious cause of hospitalization
and death among US adults. Incidence estimates of pneumonia confirmed radiographically …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to present the most common causes of spontaneous
abdominal hemorrhage and to review the CT findings that are important in establishing …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Pineocytomas have been described as well-circumscribed,
homogeneously enhancing masses. However, there is considerable variability in this …

… -resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) among all CAP
episodes. We compared the epidemiologic, radiographic, and clinical characteristics of S. …

Background. Recent trials suggest procalcitonin-based guidelines can reduce antibiotic use
for respiratory infections. However, the accuracy of procalcitonin to discriminate between …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of simulation-based education
on the knowledge and skills of internal medicine residents in the medical intensive care …

As medical imaging has advanced, there has been an increased dependence on the
information provided by radiologic studies, especially crosssectional imaging. This has led to …

… Any patient’s FA image was aligned to every other patient’s FA … transformation is applied to
each subject’s data. (c) Every image … Every patient’s aligned FA data were projected onto this …

Purpose To evaluate the relative impact of clinical data, imaging findings, and CSF laboratory
values on clinical outcome in patients with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (…

… Every patient’s aligned FA or mean diffusivity data were projected onto this skeleton for
voxel-based cross-subject statistical analysis. We applied a Monte Carlo permutation test, with …