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Radiopaedia.org is a rapidly growing, open-edit radiology resource, compiled by radiologists and other health professionals from across the globe.
Radiopaedia Blog
2y ago
Radiopaedia.org and the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) are again collaborating on giving you all the opportunity to submit an adult brain case to ASNR 2023 Case of the Day.
Each day during the ASNR 61st Annual Meeting (April 29-May 3, 2023), a case will be shown as the official Case of the Day. This had traditionally been 'invite-only', but for a number of years, one of the cases will be chosen from cases you submit to Radiopaedia.org.
In addition to one ASNR 2023 case of the day winner, we will also be showcasing a ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
2y ago
Project Bone-RADS was an editorial project aimed at the update and revision of several articles on the most common bone lesions encountered in imaging. It was inspired by the white paper Guidelines for the Diagnostic Management of Incidental Solitary Bone Lesions on CT and MRI in Adults: Bone Reporting and Data System (Bone-RADS) by Chang et al. published in Skeletal Radiology.
From April-August 2022 the following was done:
major revision/update – 34 articles
solitary sclerotic bone lesion
subchondral cyst/geode
intraosseous ganglion
intraosseous hemangioma
osteoid osteoma
osteoblastom ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
2y ago
Project philosophical doughnut was an editorial project to tidy up, standardize and, most importantly, give clinical indications and purpose to our CT protocol articles (hence the wacky name Andrew chose and stuck with).
Radiography training in many institutions around the world is heavily process-driven; that is, radiographers are taught the technical requirements of a CT scan and learn the clinical side on the job. Radiographers and medical staff who understand the reasoning behind CT scans in terms of both the clinical indications and diagnostic goals make for better me ..read more
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2y ago
Mona Lisa Image by Sumanley xulx from Pixabay.
Project MSK Infection was an editorial project that aimed at updating Radiopaedia's MRI MSK infection-related articles based on the white paper MRI nomenclature for musculoskeletal infection by Alaia et al. published in Skeletal Radiology (open access).
From February-March 2022 the following was completed:
six new articles created
ulcer
sinus tract
soft tissue abscess
devitalized soft tissue
infectious tenosynovitis
subperiosteal abscess
intraosseous abscess
12 articles updated
soft tissue edema
cellulitis
phlegmon
necrot ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
3y ago
The 5th Edition of the World Health Organization classification of Central Nervous System tumors was published online in late 2021 and included many changes both to the overall schema of the classification of many common conditions as well many changes to specific diagnoses. Additionally, a number of new entities have been recognized.
Many editors and contributors, first and foremost two Francesci (Francesco Buemi and Francesco (Frank) Gaillard), reviewed an updated over 100 articles, wrote over a dozen new articles and just as importantly deleted or merged many others.
  ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
3y ago
Radiopaedia.org and the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) are again collaborating on giving you all the opportunity to submit an adult brain case to ASNR 2022 Case of the Day.
Each day during the ASNR 60th Annual Meeting (May 16-18, 2022), a case will be shown as the official Case of the Day. This had traditionally been 'invite-only', but for a number of years, one of the cases will be chosen from cases you submit to Radiopaedia.org.
In addition to one ASNR 2022 case of the day winner, we will also be showcasing a number of ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
3y ago
Projects angles was a review of Radiopaedia's foot and ankle measurements, inspired by this fantastic (open access!) article by Lau et al published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
Over a space of four weeks in January/February 2022:
21 new articles were created;
and
16 existing articles were updated
The team consisted of (in alphabetical order):
Andrew Murphy, radiographer, Australia
Amanda Er, radiographer, Singapore
Dr Calum Worsley, radiology registrar, Scotland
Dr Jeremy Jones, radiologist, Scotland
Dr Joachim Feger, radiologist, Germany
Dr  ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
3y ago
Operation Weeds was a massive, and largest, editorial project ever undertaken by our editorial board targeted at cleaning up many of the earliest-uploaded cases, particularly those with missing findings or content in the now-deprecated "series specific findings".
It involved the entire editorial board trawling through over ten thousand cases to remove series specific findings and edit cases to ensure they were in line with the style guide. Additionally, many cases that were no longer considered acceptable under our current standards were eith ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
3y ago
Operation fixation was an editorial project that ran from July-August 2021. It was the first editorial project to be run on the Discord server. When I uploaded this case:
Failed posterior instrumented lumbar fusion (rID: 89283)
After realizing our Reference Articles on spinal fixation was incomplete, a list of common surgical procedures was completed and the project was launched and a team assembled on Discord of (in alphabetical order):
Dr Joachim Feger, radiologist, Germany
Dr Jeremy Jones, radiologist, Scotland
Dr Henry Knipe, radiologist, England
Dr Fabio Macori, radiologi ..read more
Radiopaedia Blog
3y ago
The Radiographics update initiative was an editorial project that ran from September 2018 to July 2021. Radiographics is one of the best-known radiology journals with a focus on high-quality review and educational articles and it is this quality that attracted our editors to use it as a springboard to ensure that Radiopaedia remained relevant and up-to-date.
This project was led by Dr Matthew Morgan and had over a dozen editors involved. Over the course almost three years
79 new articles were created
322 articles were updated
34 multiple-choice questions were written
Like the sun ..read more