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January 16, 2025

The magic cauldron: ingredients to transition ultrasound from teaching undergraduate anatomy to postgraduate POCUS

Integrating ultrasound into undergraduate medical curricula in the UK remains a hard nut to crack. While UK medical schools are making progress, there is no standardised undergraduate medical ultrasound curriculum and we are considerably behind the USA and Europe. As a new medical school, we were able to consider the essential ingredients to include in […]

Debs Patten, Kate Duholery, Borsha Sarker

Professor Debs Patten, Dr Kate Dulohery, Borsha Sarker

University of Sunderland Medical Centre

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December 15, 2021

You really can diagnose endometriosis on ultrasound

Endometriosis is such a common disease, it affects around 10% of all women. This condition results from the presence of endometrial-like tissue in an abnormal location, for example in the peritoneum (superficial endometriosis), in the uterine myometrium (adenomyosis), in the ovaries (ovarian endometrioma), in the ligaments and connective tissue behind the uterus (retro-cervical fibrosis), or […]

Dr Susanne Johnson, Borsha Sarker

Princess Anne Hospital, NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre

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December 11, 2019

Ultrasound in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a type of large vessel vasculitis, mostly involving branches of the external carotid artery, which commonly affects the arteries of the scalp and face but can affect any of the cranial branches arising from the arch of the aorta. It is potentially a very serious condition, which can cause blindness […]

Borsha Sarker, Kate Smith, Dr Sarah Mackie, Dr Richard Wakefield

Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine

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November 16, 2018

Ultrasound features in inflammatory arthritis

If you thought rheumatologists only treated rheumatoid arthritis then you would be wrong. There are many different types of arthritis diagnosed and managed by the rheumatology department and ultrasound can play an important part within the patient management pathway of many of them, not only with respect to diagnosis but also the monitoring of treatment […]