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Background: Umbilical Venous Catheter (UVC) are commonly used in neonatal period; they can be not correctly positioned and could be associated with complications. The purpose of this article is to suggest a flow-chart to evaluate the placement of UVC, testing it in young radiologists-in-training. Method: We developed a simple flow-chart to asses, steps by step, UVC placement considering its course and tip location (ideally placed in the atriocaval junction). We tested the flow-chart impact asking to 20 residents to evaluate the placement of 10 UVC before and after they familiarized with the flow-chart and the anatomical findings of a newborn. The agreement among the 20 students was evaluated too. Results: The number of correct characterizations was different due to the administration of the flow-chart. One hundred and six correct UVC assessments at the beginning switched to 196 after the administration of the flow-chart (p=0.0001). The observed agreement among the twenty radiology residents was statistically significant, both before (kappa=0.41, p&nbsp

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References, Learning objectives: Isolated cecal necrosis is a rare entity with high mortality. There are not many cases described in radiology literature; we want to explain the main CT findings to recognize this...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References, Learning objectives: The hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease mainly caused by Echinococcus granulosus. One of the most frequent complications of hepatic hydatid disease is rupture of cysts into the bile ducts, but only a few case reports to our knowledge described MRCP...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References, Learning objectives: To optimize small-bowel MR protocols; to describe the most important findings in Crohn’s disease...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References, Learning objectives: We expose the principal imaging characteristics of splenic granulomatosis, in order to interpret the findings correctly, reaching whenever possible the appropriate...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References, Learning objectives: Bleeding into the biliary tree or hemobilia is a rare cause for upper gastro-intestinal bleeding that was first described by Francis Glison in 1654 [1]. Most commonly hemobilia is the result of trauma or investigatory interventions but...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References, Learning objectives: To describe the changes observed in contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the event of regression of benign hepatic lesions, such as focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) and hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) To speculate on the possible...