Authorship: Partnership CBR and American College of Radiology (ACR)
Year: 2005
▶ Respiratory impairment – suspected cardiac origin
▶ Imaging diagnosis of patients with claudication
▶ Unilateral pain and swelling in the upper extremity
▶ Acute chest pain – without ECG evidence of myocardial ischaemia/infarction
▶ Acute chest pain – suspected aortic dissection
▶ Acute chest pain - suspected pulmonary embolism
▶ Acute chest pain – suspected myocardial ischemia
▶ Chronic chest pain – suspected cardiac origin
▶ Chronic chest pain without evidence of myocardial ischemia/infarction
▶ Sudden onset of cold, painful leg
▶ Recurrent symptoms after lower extremity arterial bypass surgery
▶ Recurring symptoms after lower extremity angioplasty: lameness and threatened limb
▶ Suspected congenital heart disease in adults
▶ Suspected bacterial endocarditis
▶ Suspected lower extremity deep vein thrombosis
▶ Blunt abdominal or pelvic trauma – suspected vascular injury
▶ Blunt chest trauma - suspected aortic injury
▶ Evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant
▶ Evaluation of abdominal pain in the left lower quadrant
▶ Assessment of patients with acute right upper quadrant pain
▶ Imaging evaluation of a palpable abdominal mass
▶ Imaging evaluation of the patient with acute abdominal pain and fever
▶ Characterization of liver injury
▶ Imaging diagnosis of blunt abdominal trauma
▶ Pretreatment staging of colorectal cancer
▶ Imaging diagnostic strategies in the initial evaluation of a patient with jaundice
▶ Patient with suspected small bowel obstruction: imaging evaluation strategies
▶ Imaging evaluation recommendations for patients with Crohn's disease
▶ Diagnostic imaging recommendations for patients with dysphagia
▶ Hip arthroplasty – radiological procedure recommendations
▶ Imaging evaluation in suspected ankle fracture
▶ Assessment of a patient with painful hip or knee arthroplasty
▶ Imaging diagnosis of avascular necrosis of the hip
▶ Imaging diagnosis of osteomyelitis in a patient with diabetes mellitus
▶ Diagnostic imaging of a patient with multiple lesions
▶ Follow-up examinations of bone tumors, soft tissue tumors and suspected metastases after therapy
▶ Stress/insufficiency fractures (except vertebral fractures)
▶ Osteoporosis and bone mineral density