Alexander J Towbin

Summary

Affiliation: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Practice policy and quality initiatives: decreasing variability in turnaround time for radiographic studies from the emergency department
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology and Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Radiographics 33:361-71. 2013
  2. ncbi Schatzki ring in pediatric and young adult patients
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 42:1437-40. 2012
  3. ncbi Creating a comprehensive customer service program to help convey critical and acute results of radiology studies
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 196:W48-51. 2011
  4. ncbi The CT appearance of intraoral chewing gum
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 38:1350-2. 2008
  5. ncbi Transient hepatic attenuation differences in neonates
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45241, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 39:798-803. 2009
  6. ncbi Chronic granulomatous disease
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 40:657-68; quiz 792-3. 2010
  7. ncbi Focal nodular hyperplasia in children, adolescents, and young adults
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 41:341-9. 2011
  8. ncbi Hepatoblastoma imaging with gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MRI--typical, atypical, pre- and post-treatment evaluation
    Arthur B Meyers
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 42:859-66. 2012
  9. ncbi Quality initiatives: department scorecard: a tool to help drive imaging care delivery performance
    Lane F Donnelly
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
    Radiographics 30:2029-38. 2010
  10. ncbi Pediatric liver MR elastography
    Suraj D Serai
    Department of Radiology, MLC 5031, Cincinnati Children s Hospital and Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Dig Dis Sci 57:2713-9. 2012

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi Practice policy and quality initiatives: decreasing variability in turnaround time for radiographic studies from the emergency department
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology and Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Radiographics 33:361-71. 2013
    ..7 to 79.8 minutes. Quality improvement techniques were used to decrease mean TAT and the variability in TAT for ED radiographs. This change was associated with an improvement in ED throughput...
  2. ncbi Schatzki ring in pediatric and young adult patients
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 42:1437-40. 2012
    ..A Schatzki ring (SR) is an uncommon finding in children. Entities previously associated with an SR include gastroesophageal reflux (GER), hiatal hernia (HH) and eosinophilic esophagitis (EE)...
  3. ncbi Creating a comprehensive customer service program to help convey critical and acute results of radiology studies
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 196:W48-51. 2011
    ..This article will describe the implementation of a comprehensive customer service program in a hospital-based radiology department...
  4. ncbi The CT appearance of intraoral chewing gum
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 38:1350-2. 2008
    ..Because of the potential for misdiagnosis, screening for intraoral foreign bodies should be considered prior to imaging...
  5. ncbi Transient hepatic attenuation differences in neonates
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45241, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 39:798-803. 2009
    ..Although THADs have been described in adolescents and adults, they have not previously been described in neonates...
  6. ncbi Chronic granulomatous disease
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 40:657-68; quiz 792-3. 2010
    ..The purpose of this paper is to review the imaging findings of CGD that can manifest throughout the body...
  7. ncbi Focal nodular hyperplasia in children, adolescents, and young adults
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 41:341-9. 2011
    ..In order to understand whether there are differences in the etiology or appearance of FNH in children, we analyzed the clinical information and imaging of pathologically proven cases...
  8. ncbi Hepatoblastoma imaging with gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MRI--typical, atypical, pre- and post-treatment evaluation
    Arthur B Meyers
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 42:859-66. 2012
    ..Hepatoblastoma is the most common primary hepatic malignancy of childhood. In this review, we describe our experience with this agent both before and after initiating therapy in children with hepatoblastoma...
  9. ncbi Quality initiatives: department scorecard: a tool to help drive imaging care delivery performance
    Lane F Donnelly
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
    Radiographics 30:2029-38. 2010
    ..The use of such a scorecard can help develop a departmental culture of quality improvement, focus healthcare providers on specific quality improvement projects, and drive departmental performance...
  10. ncbi Pediatric liver MR elastography
    Suraj D Serai
    Department of Radiology, MLC 5031, Cincinnati Children s Hospital and Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Dig Dis Sci 57:2713-9. 2012
    ..The purpose of this article is to present our initial clinical experience and illustrate our modified technique for the application of liver MRE in pediatric patients at our medical center...
  11. ncbi Inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents: assessing the diagnostic performance and interreader agreement of magnetic resonance enterography compared to histopathology
    Daniel B Wallihan
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnett Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
    Acad Radiol 19:819-26. 2012
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  12. ncbi Non-contrast MRA using an inflow-enhanced, inversion recovery SSFP technique in pediatric abdominal imaging
    Suraj Serai
    Radiology, MLC 5031, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 42:364-8. 2012
    ..The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the utility of an inflow-enhanced, inversion recovery balanced steady-state free precession-based (b-SSFP) NC-MRA technique...
  13. ncbi Does secretin add value in pediatric magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography?
    Andrew T Trout
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 43:479-86. 2013
    ..In our pediatric practice, however, we have not observed substantial benefit with the use of secretin...
  14. ncbi Causes of esophageal food bolus impaction in the pediatric population
    Lincoln O Diniz
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Dig Dis Sci 57:690-3. 2012
    ..The causes of esophageal food bolus impaction are thought to be different in the pediatric population as compared to adults...
  15. ncbi Incidence and etiology of new liver lesions in pediatric patients previously treated for malignancy
    Ethan A Smith
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 199:186-91. 2012
    ..The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the time course, cause, and imaging characteristics of all new liver lesions in pediatric patients with a previously treated malignancy...
  16. ncbi Altered liver morphology after portal vein thrombosis: not always cirrhosis
    Mitchell E Tublin
    Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Dig Dis Sci 53:2784-8. 2008
    ..Awareness of this appearance after primary portal vein thrombosis may prevent an erroneous diagnosis of cirrhosis...
  17. ncbi Beyond acute appendicitis: imaging of additional pathologies of the pediatric appendix
    Kelly R Dietz
    Amplatz Children s Hospital, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 43:232-42; quiz 259. 2013
    ..Familiarity with these alternative diagnoses might be particularly helpful in guiding management of the child whose clinical presentation is not typical for primary acute appendicitis...
  18. ncbi Fluoroscopic findings in pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis
    Lincoln O Diniz
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 42:721-7. 2012
    ..Several fluoroscopic findings have been described in EE, but the frequency of these findings is unknown...
  19. ncbi Characterization of pediatric liver lesions with gadoxetate disodium
    Arthur B Meyers
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnett Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229 3039, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 41:1183-97. 2011
    ..As a hepatocyte-specific MRI contrast agent, Gd-EOB-DTPA has the potential to improve characterization and provide a more specific diagnosis of pediatric liver masses...
  20. ncbi Computer-based simulator for radiology: an educational tool
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Radiographics 28:309-16. 2008
    ..Besides education, other possible uses include certification, testing, and the creation of teaching files...
  21. ncbi A review of two cases of fenestrated internal jugular veins as seen by CT angiography
    Alexander J Towbin
    Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 25:1433-4. 2004
    ..Although their clinical significance is questionable, their importance in presurgical planning may be considerable. We present a report of two cases of internal jugular vein fenestration...