AJR. American journal of roentgenology
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Jul 1996
The employment market for 1995 graduates of diagnostic radiology and radiation oncology training.
Despite widespread concern that a major surplus of non-primary-care physicians is developing, little nonanecdotal information has been available. Therefore, we developed and applied a methodology for appraising the situation of new graduates. Graduates should be particularly vulnerable because, unlike seasoned physicians. they all must find employment. ⋯ Unemployment was remarkably low. Also, surprisingly, even "soft" indicators such as undesired positions or difficulties during the process of employment search (i.e., in April-May) did not show deterioration. Projections of pending physician surpluses may be exaggerated. Given our findings, program directors' growing pessimism is puzzling. This pessimism has not called forth sizable cuts in program size and, if major surpluses are pending, neither reductions in program size nor failure to fill all available slots offer significant relief, at least to date. The employment market is about equally good (or equally difficult) across diagnostic subspecialties. The absence of regional differences indicates graduates are effectively reaching beyond the locality where they trained in their employment search.
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Jul 1996
Nonsurgical management of patients with blunt splenic injury: efficacy of transcatheter arterial embolization.
We evaluated the efficacy of nonsurgical management of patients with blunt splenic injury using detailed angiographic examinations and transcatheter arterial embolization. ⋯ Our success rate for nonsurgical management of patients with blunt splenic injury should encourage more extensive evaluation and use of angiography for splenic injury and the subsequent management of splenic injury without surgery.
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Jul 1996
Comparative StudyEvaluation of soft-tissue foreign bodies: comparing conventional plain film radiography, computed radiography printed on film, and computed radiography displayed on a computer workstation.
The study was performed to evaluate detection of soft-tissue foreign bodies using conventional radiography (film-screen radiography), computed radiography printed on films (computed radiography-hard copy), and computed radiography displayed on a computer workstation (computed radiography-soft copy). ⋯ Detection of soft-tissue foreign bodies is best done using computed radiography-soft copy instead of film-screen radiography and computed radiography-hard copy imaging.
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Jul 1996
Comparative StudyDiagnostic accuracy and safety of CT-guided percutaneous needle aspiration biopsy of the lung: comparison of small and large pulmonary nodules.
The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy and safety of CT-guided percutaneous needle aspiration biopsy of pulmonary nodules less than or equal to 1.5 cm in diameter with those of nodules greater than 1.5 cm in diameter. ⋯ CT-guided percutaneous needle aspiration biopsy is significantly less accurate for small pulmonary nodules than for large pulmonary nodules, but the complication rates for both are low.