This article describes updates on author guidelines for manuscripts submitted on or after January 1, 2013 to the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise throughout the year 2012 to the high quality and success of this journal.

The Journal of Radiology Case Reports (JRCR) and the international Radiology community Radiolopolis start from June 2012 on a new academic award system by providing educational grants for excellent pictorial review articles in Radiology.

This article describes updates on author guidelines for manuscripts submitted after January 20, 2012 to the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This is a quick retrospective view back to the year 2011, summarizing the journal’s experience, demonstrating submission statistics of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports and journal updates planned for the year 2012.

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise throughout the year 2011 to the high quality and success of this journal.

Purpose

An objective tool is desired, which optimally prepares for Radiology boards examination. Such program should prepare examinees with pertinent radiological contents and simulations as expected in the real examination.

Background

Many countries require written boards examinations for Radiology certification eligibility. No objective measure exists to tell if the examinee is ready to pass the exam or not. Time pressure and computer environment might be unfamiliar to examinees. Traditional preparation lectures don't simulate the "real" Radiology exam because they don't provide the special environment with multiple choice questions and timing.

Materials and Methods

This online program consists of 4 parts. The entry section allows to create questions with additional fields for comprehensive information. Sections include Pediatrics/Mammography/GI/IR/Nucs/Thoracic/Musculoskeletal/GU/Neuro/Ultrasound/Cardiac/OB/GYN and Miscellaneous. Experienced radiologists and educators evaluate and release/delete these entries in the administrator section. In the exam section users can create (un)timed customized exams for individual needs and learning pace. Exams can either include all sections or only specific sections to gear learning towards areas with weaker performance. Comprehensive statistics unveil the user's strengths and weaknesses to help focussing on "weak" areas. In the search section a comprehensive search and review can be performed by searching the entire database for keywords/topics or only searching within specific sections.

Conclusion

www.RadiologyBoards.org is a new working concept of Radiology boards preparation to detect and improve the examinee's weaknesses and finally to increase the examinee's confidence level for the final exam. It is beneficial for Radiology residents and also board certified radiologists to refresh/maintain radiological knowledge.

This article describes updates on author guidelines for manuscripts submitted after February 1st 2011 to the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise throughout the year 2010 to the high quality and success of this journal.

This is a quick retrospective view back to the year 2010, summarizing the journal’s experience and demonstrating submission statistics of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This article focuses on Radiology Olympics (www.RadiologyOlympics.com) - a collaboration with the international Radiology community for Radiology education, Radiolopolis (www.Radiolopolis.com). The Radiology Olympics honour the movers and shakers in Radiology education and offer an easy to use platform for educating medical professionals based on Radiology cases.

This article focuses on PubRad (www.pubrad.org) - a custom defined and Radiology targeted medical literature search software which can be used in multiple ways to adjust to the individual user's needs. PubRad can be used from its website, from the user's desktop, it can be implemented into the user's own website or can be even integrated into third party programs.

This article describes updates on author guidelines for manuscripts submitted after February 1st 2010 to the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This is a quick retrospective view back to the year 2009, summarizing the journal’s experience and demonstrating submission statistics of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise throughout the year 2009 to the high quality and success of this journal.

This article focuses on Annotate (www.annotate.org) – an online program for image editing and creation of interactive teaching files. This program is free to use, does not need any installation or plugin and can be used from any workstation with internet access. Multiple tools and preferences allow a customization of the program to the user needs.

This editorial is dedicated to an academic surgeon who has developed and sophisticated radiographic techniques to make art out of nature over the last 40 years.

This article focuses on a relatively new concept in the Internet: “Social networking” and especially on one program that successfully found a unique way to provide a social network for Radiology: Radiolopolis. Radiolopolis (www.Radiolopolis.com) is an international Radiology network to promote education, research and clinical practice in Radiology. What makes this Radiology community unique and special is that the founders of Radiolopolis implemented multiple educational and clinical/practical programs which have been developed over the past years.

This is a quick retrospective view back to the year 2008, summarizing the journal’s experience and demonstrating submission statistics of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise to the high quality and success of this journal.

This article describes policy updates for manuscripts submitted after November 1st 2008 to the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports.

This editorial is dedicated to a radiologist who makes diagnostic imaging more appealing to the viewer’s eye with special post-processing techniques.

The 21st century has provided new technical and educational opportunities as well as challenges which have not been approached and exploited sufficiently by traditional scientific journals. Furthermore, case reports are usually “neglected” by traditional journals for a variety of reasons, including limited space in the hardcopy version of the journal issue and priority over original research and review articles. The Journal of Radiology Case Reports is a new generation of journals, which is dedicated to provide open-access, high-quality, peer-reviewed and interactive Radiology case reports.

The author presents a case with an unusual presentation of early appendicitis. The patient presented initially with left sided flank pain. Workup for nephrolithiasis, including non-contrast CT of the abdomen and pelvis was negative for renal stones or hydronephrosis. After discharge, the patient presented one week later in the ED with right lower quadrant pain. Contrast enhanced CT of the abdomen revealed perforated appendicitis.