21st May 2020, Spectrum Medical Imaging
As many of you are consulting from home using Telehealth due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be occasions when there is a need for referral for medical imaging. It can be a hassle trying to print xray forms, scan them to email or to fax them to your favourite medical imaging provider. Spectrum Medical Imaging have streamlined the whole process to make life easy for all of us.…
28th April, Spectrum Radiology
This month’s radiology series is brought to you by Dr Chee Chung Hiew, a Paediatric Radiologist at Spectrum Medical Imaging.
In Case 1, we have a 7 year-old girl with a 3 week history of headache, lethargy and vomiting. She woke up one morning with severe vomiting and presented to ED.
In Case 2, a 6.5 year-old girl had headaches for 2 months.…
We all know how restricted the criteria for swabbing patients for Covid-19. You may consider perhaps, a chest rays may help. Although there are lots of studies describing the “classic” ground glass appearance on CXR or Chest CT, Unfortunately, in practical terms, they are not useful. It may actually endanger your radiology colleagues and their staff unless we work as a team during this difficult period.…
I don’t know about you but I am always unsure what to do with thyroid nodules. Thyroid nodules are common, very common. So, I am frequently unsure! We either refer too many thyroid patients unnecessarily or order too many ultrasound or other thyroid scans. Finally, someone has come up with a guide to assist us GPs navigate this difficult but common condition.…
Work related or motor vehicle injuries can often be tricky to manage. One not only have to look into the mechanisms of injury to assist in the diagnosis but one needs to consider the return to work schedule and restrictions. Often we need radiological investigations. That usually require approval from the insurer and that can be quite tedious. Wouldn’t it be great if someone can do the running around on our behalf.…
Pregnancy medical imaging can provide vital diagnostic information about a developing baby including gestational age, checking for multiple pregnancies, congenital anomalies and/or problems with the placenta, monitoring foetal position and growth, and the level of amniotic fluid.
Who would have thought that the radiologist is now a friend of GPs when we look after pregnant women. Radiologists are key members of clinical teams who frequently make the first diagnosis of many medical conditions in children, adults and often the unborn baby.…
26th November 2019
The symptoms of acute osteomyelitis include pain, swelling, warmth and redness over the affected part. Sometimes, there are systemic signs of fever and fatigue. Plain xrays may review osteolytic lesions, periosteal reaction or may be totally normal. Sometimes, we may need to resort to MRI to clinch the diagnosis. This month’s case illustrate the difficulty with diagnosis when the symptoms and signs are not straight forward.…
PAE is an embolisation procedure. It is a new application of a longstanding tried and tested technology. Embolisation is the deliberate occlusion of vessels in the body, in this case the arteries to the prostate. The objective of PAE is to stem the blood flow to the prostate, targeting the enlarging tissue and rendering it ischaemic (reduced supply of oxygenated blood).…
26th September 2019. Spectrum Medical Imaging
Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women. In 2019, it is estimated that 19,535 Australians will be diagnosed with breast cancer. However it is important to remember that most women survive breast cancer. Diagnosis of breast cancer patients in early stages is one of important aspects of breast cancer treatment. Among of many diagnostic platforms, imaging techniques are main diagnostic approaches which could provide valuable data on patients with breast cancer.…
Spectrum Medical Imaging, Liverpool
Different surgical procedures are used to treat patients who do not improve with non-operative therapies. Rapid deterioration is uncommon and symptoms often wax and wane or gradually improve. Surgery is almost always elective and considered only if sufficiently bothersome symptoms persist despite trials of less invasive interventions. Outcomes (leg pain and disability) seem to be better for surgery than for non-operative treatment, but the evidence is heterogeneous and often of limited quality.…
An estimated 4.7 million Australians over the age of 50 currently have osteoporosis or osteopenia, with over 144,000 associated fractures (2013). Without major improvements in diagnosis and management, the rate of osteoporotic fracture will be around 30% higher by 2022, costing an estimated $33.6 billion over the next decade. In general practice, early detection can prevent a first fracture. For patients who have already fractured, investigation and initiation of osteoporosis medication is crucial to reduce the very high risk of subsequent fractures.…
22nd June 2019, Spectrum Medical Imaging
Dynamic contrast enhanced breast – MRI must contain a minimal number of MRI sequences that is necessary to detect small enhancing breast lesions. What if we cut down the number of sequences but yet have enough accuracy to detect small early cancers? That’s what AB-MRI is – less number of sequences but yet enough to detect small lesions. …