When added to a standard triage strategy incorporating clinical evaluation, serial ECGs, and cardiac markers, SMPI improved clinical decision making for chest pain patients, significantly reducing the need for hospitalization without an increase in adverse CE rates at 30 days or 1 year.

Dynamic MR gradient-echo imaging with a low-dose gadopentetate dimeglumine technique can produce an intensity-time curve and serial dynamic images of the urinary system, in a way similar to that of radionuclide renography. This technique allows assessment of split renal function and urinary excretory status and is a feasible alternative to radionuclide renography.

The importance of routine neck ultrasonography for the detection of unsuspected local or nodal recurrence of thyroid cancer following thyroidectomy (with or without neck dissection) is well documented in many journal articles and international guidelines. Herein, we present a pictorial summary of the sonographic features of benign and malignant central neck compartment nodules and cervical lymph nodes via a series of high-quality ultrasonographic images, with a review of the literature.

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