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Diagnostic techniques and procedures

Letters

Unnecessary ultrasound imaging in the management of undescended testis

Dharshini Selvarajah, Dermot McDowell, Susan Jehangir and Grahame Smith

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 528-528

Reflections

The silence around miscarriage hurts health care and bereaved parents

Melanie Keep

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 343-344.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

E‐cigarette or vaping product use‐associated lung injury in an adolescent

Betty S Chan, Alexander Kiss, Nathan McIntosh, Vicky Sheppeard and Andrew H Dawson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 313-314.e1 Free

Research

The value of clinical breast examination in a breast cancer surveillance program for women with germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

Tamara Hettipathirana, Courtney Macdonald, Jing Xie, Kate Moodie, Chris Michael and Kelly‐Anne Phillips

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 460-464 Free

Editorials

Excessive PSA testing in general practice

Justin J Coleman

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 215-216

Research

Screening outcomes by risk factor and age: evidence from BreastScreen WA for discussions of risk‐stratified population screening

Naomi Noguchi, Michael L Marinovich, Elizabeth J Wylie, Helen G Lund and Nehmat Houssami

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 359-365 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Cerebral gnathostomiasis

Simon Smith, Ian Wilson, Lea Starck, Enzo Binotto, Jennifer Ho and Joshua Hanson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 164-165.e1

Research

The characteristics of SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive children who presented to Australian hospitals during 2020: a PREDICT network study

Laila F Ibrahim, Doris Tham, Vimuthi Chong, Mark Corden, Simon Craig, Paul Buntine, Shefali Jani, Michael Zhang, Shane George, Amit Kochar, Sharon O’Brien, Karen Robins‐Browne, Shidan Tosif, Andrew Daley, Sarah McNab, Nigel W Crawford, Catherine Wilson and Franz E Babl

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 217-221 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

Isolated intrathoracic kidney

Jessica Phillips and Jonathan Foo

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 108-108.e1

Research letter

Prostate‐specific antigen testing of asymptomatic men in Australia: an observational study based on electronic general practice data

Guilherme S Franco, Rae‐Anne Hardie, Ling Li, Chisato Imai, Gorkem Sezgin, Julie Li, Adam McLeod, Christopher Pearce and Andrew Georgiou

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 228-229 Free

Narrative review

Persistent pathology of the patent foramen ovale: a review of the literature

Kenneth K Cho, Shaun Khanna, Phillip Lo, Daniel Cheng and David Roy

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 89-93

Medical education / Snapshot

Cystic and cavitating lung lesions as a presenting finding of metastatic prostate cancer

Michael A Cilento and Christopher M Hocking

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 459-459.e1

Perspectives

Artificial intelligence and medical imaging: applications, challenges and solutions

Meng Law, Jarrel Seah and George Shih

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 450-452.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

COVID‐19 swab‐related skull base injury

Sandeep G Mistry, Wallace Walker, James Earnshaw and Anders Cervin

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 457-459.e1 Free

Letters

Coronary artery calcium scoring in cardiovascular risk assessment of people with family histories of early onset coronary artery disease

Prasanna Venkataraman and Thomas H Marwick

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 440-440.e1

Perspectives

The future of brain banking in Australia: an integrated brain and body biolibrary

Amanda Rush and Greg T Sutherland

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 447-449.e1

Perspectives

Overdiagnosis of screen‐detected breast cancer

Vivienne Milch, Sanchia Aranda, Karen Canfell, Megan Varlow, David M Roder, David Currow, Cleola Anderiesz and Dorothy Keefe

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 455-456.e1

Position statement

National Heart Foundation of Australia: position statement on coronary artery calcium scoring for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Australia

Garry LR Jennings, Ralph Audehm, Warrick Bishop, Clara K Chow, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Danny Liew and Sara M Linton

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 434-439 Free

Letters

Coronary artery calcium scoring in cardiovascular risk assessment of people with family histories of early onset coronary artery disease

Andrew Hayen, Paul P Glasziou and Jenny A Doust

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 440-440.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Epipericardial fat necrosis: chest pain in a young pregnant woman

Rohan V Navani, Claudia Ashkar and Harry Gibbs

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 355-356.e1

Medical education / Snapshot

Recurrent vanishing lung tumour: the phantom tumour

Jeet Ram Kashyap and Aayushi Gupta

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 356-356.e1

Editorials

Does Australia need more catheterisation laboratories to treat heart attack?

Peter L Thompson

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 307-308

Research letters

Persistent symptoms up to four months after community and hospital‐managed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

David R Darley, Gregory J Dore, Lucette Cysique, Kay A Wilhelm, David Andresen, Katrina Tonga, Emily Stone, Anthony Byrne, Marshall Plit, Jeffrey Masters, Helen Tang, Bruce Brew, Philip Cunningham, Anthony Kelleher and Gail V Matthews

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 279-280 Free

Research

Factors that influence whether patients with acute coronary syndromes undergo cardiac catheterisation

Michael Ayad, Karice Hyun, Mario D’Souza, Julie Redfern, Janice Gullick, Mark Ryan and David B Brieger

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 310-317 Free

Perspectives

A pathway for acute chest imaging in suspected or confirmed COVID‐19

David Ngan, Suzanne McKeen, Meegan Gun, Daniel Haustead, Andrew Low, Brett Lorraine and James Bewes

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 299-301.e1 Free