Every day, Main Line Health radiologists and health professionals utilize state-of-the-art imaging technologies to detect, diagnose and treat a wide variety of diseases and injuries...and save lives. Click on the links below to view or print out actual physician case studies and patient success stories of how members of Main Line Health's radiology team and other medical staff members at our locations throughout the Philadelphia suburbs have used some of these tools and technologies with great results.

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Our Latest Case Studies:

• P.E.T./C.T. Imaging: Treating Cancer to Stage -- Erik Assarsson, MD of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Bryn Mawr Hospital and Tracy d'Entremont of the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Bryn Mawr Hospital, demonstrate how P.E.T./C.T. (Positron Emission Tomography/Computer Tomography) Scan was critical in indentifying the appropriate treatment. View Case Study!
  
  
• P.E.T./C.T. Imaging: Cancer Recurrence -- Jennifer Armstrong, MD of the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Paoli Hospital, shows how P.E.T./C.T. (Positron Emission Tomography/Computer Tomography) Scan identified a liver lesion that would have gone undetected. View Case Study!
  
  
• P.E.T. Imaging: Cancer Remission -- Erik Zeger, MD of the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Lankenau Hospital, explains how P.E.T. (Positron Emission Tomography) Scan is used to determine the types of treatment and Stage of the cancer.  View Case Study!
  
  
• P.E.T. Imaging: Cancer Staging -- Zonera Ali, MD of the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Lankenau Hospital, reveals how P.E.T. (Positron Emission Tomography) Scan is used to find other cancerous areas and establish the cancer Stage.  View Case Study!
  
  
• P.E.T. Imaging: Colorectal Case Study -- Michel Hoessly, MD of the Division of Medical Oncology & Hematology at Paoli Hospital, describes how a P.E.T. (Positron Emission Tomography) Scan was able to detect a hard-to-find cancerous lesion on the liver of a colorectal cancer survivor...when other detection methods couldn't. View Case Study!

• P.E.T. Imaging: Lung Case Study #1 -- Michael B. Dabrow, DO, Medical Director of the Cancer Center at Paoli Hospital, illustrates how a P.E.T. Scan was able to catch and diagnose lung cancer in a 64-year old woman...avoiding the need for a biopsy and other investigative procedures. View Case Study!

• P.E.T. Imaging: Lung Case Study #2 -- Stephen C. Fox, MD of the Division of Medical Oncology & Hematology at Paoli Hospital, shares how a P.E.T. Scan enabled him to to detect a tumor in the lung of a breast cancer survivor...in its earliest stages. View Case Study!

• M.R.I. Imaging: Shoulder Case Study -- Joseph V. Vernace, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon at Bryn Mawr Hospital and Hayler H. Osborn, MD, Radiologist at Bryn Mawr Hospital describe how Magnetic Resonance Imaging can be used to diagnose serious injuries to the shoulder in their earliest stages before they get more severe. View Case Study!

• C.T. Imaging: Lung Case Study -- Steven C. Cohen, MD of the Division of Medical Oncology & Hematology at Bryn Mawr Hospital and Emma Simpson, MD, Department of Radiology, Bryn Mawr Hospital, explain how a Computed Tomography (CT) scan may have saved the life of a 62-year-old woman by detecting a cancerous nodule on her lung that other types of imaging would not have revealed. View Case Study!

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