HOSPITAL FOCUS An Italian
In addition to being Professor of Musculoskeletal Radiology at the Specialty School in Orthopedics and
Traumatology and Physiotherapy at the
reference center for musculoskeletal
pathologies As part of our regular series of hospital focus articles, in this issue we look at the Trauma Center and Orthopedic Hospital (CTO) of Turin which is the pre-eminent reference medical center for musculoskeletal pathologies in the Piedmont Region of Italy.
University of Turin, Dr Faletti is also Prof. of Musculoskeletal Radiology at the universities of Novara, Genova and Rome (Tor Vergata). He is a past president of the Italian Society of Radiology in Sport Medicine and of the Sports Medicine Imaging subcommittee of the European Society of Skeletal Radiology. Prof Faletti is also President of the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM) and Professor of Radiology at the University of Turin and Genoa.
We asked Prof Carlo Faletti, director of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging in the Orthopedic Hospital and Trauma Center in Turin to briefly describe what goes on in his department.
T
he Trauma Center and Orthopedic (CTO) Hospital of Turin is the Piedmont Region’s reference medical center for musculoskel- etal pathologies.
It is also the site of the
Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Turin University,
the Piedmont Region’s Trauma Refer-
ence Center and the reference site of the sarcoma group for the diagnosis and treatment of bone and soft-tissue tumors.
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
The Diagnostic Imaging Department is situated within the tall, 16 -storey structure of the multidisciplinary trauma center and orthopedic hospital (CTO), which has approximately 400 beds and serves the whole Piedmont region in the north west of Italy. The CTO provides many services such as being a specialized centre for paraplegics, a clinical and administrative centre for Orthopedic Rheu- matology and has no fewer than three radiology units, including one devoted to neuroradiology. In addition, the Diagnostic Imaging department also
serves the Pediatric and Obstetric/Gynecology hospi- tals though two other radiology units, namely one spe- cializing in nuclear medicine and one in radiotherapy.
EQUIPMENT
In addition to routine/standard digital radiology equip- ment (computed and direct radiology systems),
the
department is equipped with six total body Nuclear Magnetic Resonance scanners including both high and normal magnetic field strength instruments. There are four multislice CT scanners and a large number of ultrasound machines.
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The diagnostic imaging department in the Trauma Center and Orthopedics hospital in Turin is equipped with a large number of ultrasound machines, such as the Hitachi Prosound F75 system above. The large number of systems enables both routine examinations to be carried out on in- and out-patients as well as several research projects in various applications.
APRIL/MAY 2012
ULTRASOUND Both the number of individual US systems and their quality make them the mainstay of the functioning of the department. Thus, in addition to providing a service of routine US examinations for both in- and out-patients, it has also been possible to set up and run several research projects in different fields of the applications of US in the field of musculoskeletal pathology. These research projects are possible thanks to support
from several
manufacturers of high performance and quality ultrasound systems.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Several active research projects in the application of ultrasound technologies to musculoskeletal and other
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