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Imaging of acute small-bowel obstructionSavvas Nicolaou
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, 899 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada
AJR Am J Roentgenol 185:1036-44. 2005..CT is used increasingly more because it provides essential diagnostic information not apparent from radiographs. MRI may play a role in the future as technology improves and it becomes more readily available...
The hand-held FAST: experience with hand-held trauma sonography in a level-I urban trauma centerAndrew W Kirkpatrick
Department of Surgery, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center, Trauma Services, 3rd Floor, 855 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1L7
Injury 33:303-8. 2002..To describe the effectiveness of a portable hand-held ultrasound machine when used by clinicians in the early evaluation and resuscitation of trauma victims...
SARS: imaging of severe acute respiratory syndromeSavvas Nicolaou
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, 899 W. 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada
AJR Am J Roentgenol 180:1247-9. 2003
Severe acute respiratory syndrome: radiographic and CT findingsNestor L Muller
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, 899 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
AJR Am J Roentgenol 181:3-8. 2003..In hospitalized SARS patients, the abnormalities tend to progress to bilateral air-space consolidation. CT may reveal parenchymal disease in patients whose radiographs show normal results...
Traumatic pneumothorax detection with thoracic US: correlation with chest radiography and CT--initial experienceKevin R Rowan
Department of Radiology, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, 899 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 1M9
Radiology 225:210-4. 2002..CONCLUSION: In this study, US was more sensitive than supine chest radiography and as sensitive as CT in the detection of traumatic pneumothoraces...
Images in clinical medicine. Radiologic manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndromeSavvas Nicolaou
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada
N Engl J Med 348:2006. 2003
Enhanced recognition of "lung sliding" with power color Doppler imaging in the diagnosis of pneumothoraxJohann Cunningham
Section of Trauma, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Trauma 52:769-71. 2002
Utility of screening for blunt vascular neck injuries with computed tomographic angiographyNathan P Schneidereit
Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Trauma 60:209-15; discussion 215-6. 2006..CTA screening significantly decreases BVNI-related morbidity and mortality in an efficient manner, underlying its utility in the early diagnosis of this injury...
Swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) viral infection: radiographic and CT findingsAmr M Ajlan
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1M9
AJR Am J Roentgenol 193:1494-9. 2009..On MDCT, the ground-glass opacities and areas of consolidation had a predominant peribronchovascular and subpleural distribution, resembling organizing pneumonia...
High-resolution CT findings of severe acute respiratory syndrome at presentation and after admissionNestor L Muller
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, 899 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
AJR Am J Roentgenol 182:39-44. 2004..The aim of this study was to assess the high-resolution CT (HRCT) findings at presentation and after hospital admission in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)...
Implementation of a new undergraduate radiology curriculum: experience at the University of British ColumbiaJimmy S Lee
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Can Assoc Radiol J 58:272-8. 2007....
Unenhanced helical CT in the investigation of acute flank painRobert Colistro
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Clin Radiol 57:435-41. 2002..Some of the common pitfalls, together with methods to avoid such occurrences, will be discussed. A review of some of the common alternative diagnoses that may mimic the symptoms of nephroureteric stone disease is illustrated...
Gluteal mass in a bodybuilder: radiological depiction of a complication of anabolic steroid useKhalid Al-Ismail
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, 899 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1M9
Eur Radiol 12:1366-9. 2002..Multi-modality imaging showed direct evidence revealing the underlying cause of the mass being depot steroid injections...
Are occult pneumothoraces truly occult or simply missed?Chad G Ball
Department of Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Trauma 60:294-8 discussion 298-9. 2006..The purpose was to (1) determine whether perceived OPTXs were truly occult or simply missed and (2) address factors that contribute to the poor sensitivity of the supine CXR...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome: temporal lung changes at thin-section CT in 30 patientsGaik C Ooi
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Rm 405, Block K, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China
Radiology 230:836-44. 2004..To evaluate lung abnormalities on serial thin-section computed tomographic (CT) scans in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) during acute and convalescent periods...
Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes for occult pneumothoraces in victims of major traumaChad G Ball
Department of Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Trauma 59:917-24; discussion 924-5. 2005..Basic markers available early in resuscitation are highly predictive for OPTXs and may guide management before CT scanning. Further study of OPTX detection and management is required...
Renal arterial resistive index response to intraabdominal hypertension in a porcine modelAndrew W Kirkpatrick
Department of Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Crit Care Med 35:207-13. 2007....
Thoracic sonography for pneumothorax: the clinical evaluation of an operational space medicine spin-offAndrew W Kirkpatrick
Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Andrew
Acta Astronaut 56:831-8. 2005..Applied thoracic US is an example of a clinically useful space medicine spin-off that is improving health care on earth...
Ultrasound detection of right-sided diaphragmatic injury; the "liver sliding" signAndrew Wallace Kirkpatrick
Am J Emerg Med 24:251-2. 2006
