The expected increase in thoracic, tailored rule-out CT examinations will urge the (general) radiologist to gain confidence in detecting and reporting alternative diagnoses on regular thoracic CT or CTA examinations requested in the setting of acute chest pain.
There were 118 mammograms and 56 ultrasound examinations requested.
Postmortem examinations were requested by the coroner in 19 cases, with the other 19 postmortem examinations requested by the intensive care medical team.
Ten of the 14 medical microbiological laboratories with available diagnostics for Cryptosporidium reported less than 10 examinations requested per year [ 4].
The actual reasons behind most check-up examinations requested by patients are generally unknown and qualitative data about the percentage of patients who request check-ups for reasons other than routine screening is lacking.
Tokyo-based elite university Keio seems to be the first to have fulfilled both conditions: On October 1st, It has submitted an examination request for a process to detect toxic metals in water (developed by a group of Keio students).
Even if the re-examination request has not come from Yahoo, it could represent a problem for Facebook, if it gets approved, because this is one of the patents in its countersuit.
When confronted with an examination request, the teleradiologist should first evaluate whether the quality of the information provided (images, priors if required, and clinical information) is sufficient to adequately answer the clinical question.
This happens to be one of the same functions that Facebook has named in its counter-suit against Yahoo, and one patent expert believes that the re-examination request, which questions the validity of the patent, could be coming from Yahoo.
The procedure requested,for an investigation into the hemodynamic changes in a patient with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), which results in chronic venous disease, is quite different from an examination request made for suspected deep vein thrombosis.
