Vinil Shah
University of California, San Francisco
50 Papers
90 Citations
Vinil Shah is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Magnetic resonance imaging. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 38 publications. Previous affiliations of Vinil Shah include University of Pittsburgh & Harvard University.
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Papers
Sonographically guided percutaneous needle tenotomy for treatment of common extensor tendinosis in the elbow: is a corticosteroid necessary?
TL;DR: Sonographically guided percutaneous needle tenotomy for refractory lateral elbow tendinosis is an effective procedure, and subsequent corticosteroid injection is not necessary.
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ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Low Back Pain: 2021 Update.
Expert Panel on Neurological Imaging,Expert Panel on Neurological Imaging,Troy A. Hutchins,Miriam E. Peckham,Lubdha M. Shah,Matthew S Parsons,Vikas Agarwal,Daniel J. Boulter,Judah Burns,R. Carter Cassidy,Melissa A Davis,Langston T. Holly,Christopher H. Hunt,Majid Khan,Toshio Moritani,A. Orlando Ortiz,John E. O'Toole,William J. Powers,Susan B. Promes,Charles A. Reitman,Vinil Shah,Simranjit Singh,Vincent M. Timpone,Amanda S. Corey +23 more
TL;DR: The American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria as mentioned in this paper are evidence-based guidelines for specific clinical conditions that are reviewed annually by a multidisciplinary expert panel, which include an extensive analysis of current medical literature from peer reviewed journals and the application of well-established methodologies (RAND/UCLA AppropriATeness Method and Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation or GRADE).
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Cerebrospinal Fluid-Venous Fistulas: A Systematic Review and Examination of Individual Patient Data.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a systematic review using PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science databases to identify studies discussing CSF-venous fistulas.
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Oncocytoma of the Parotid Gland: A Potential False-Positive Finding on 18F-FDG PET
Vinil Shah,Barton F. Branstetter +1 more
TL;DR: False-positive findings reduce the utility of PET in differentiating benign salivary gland tumors from malignant tumors, and combined PET/CT scanners, which fuse the functional data of PET with the anatomic data of CT, have shown promise in the evaluation of cancer of the head and neck.
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Practical applications of CISS MRI in spine imaging.
Zhixi Li,Yingming Amy Chen,Daniel S. Chow,Jason F. Talbott,Christine M. Glastonbury,Vinil Shah +5 more
TL;DR: The CISS MRI enables submillimeter spatial resolution and myelographic contrast and reduces CSF pulsation artifact and improves the delineation of a wide variety of spinal pathologies.
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