Department of Radiology

Characteristics:

The Department of Radiology is a modern facility providing services to A&E, in-/ outpatients and to pediatric patients on a 24-hour basis using a wide range of imaging modalities to diagnose, treat, and monitor various disease processes. It is located at several sites within the hospital.

It is fully digitalized and uses a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) enabling to receive digital images obtained using a variety of modalities and sites inside or outside of hospital and to archive them.

Services and procedures offered:

• General Radiology - plain films, barium enema studies
• Ultrasound (systems) - Toshiba Aplio, Phillips LQ 7/ - for adults and children – general   abdominal and pelvic, soft tissue, joints, vascular Doppler ultrasound
• Special procedures including intravenous urography, endoscopy (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, or ERCP) – assessment of the billiary tract including stenosis dilatation
• Computed tomography (CT) using a 64-multislice whole-body Siemens scanner including CT angiography in children and adults
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – using a General Electric (GE) 1.5 T system, examination of the head and neck, spine, bones and joints, abdomen and pelvis

The department provides care to patients admitted to its intensive care unit (ICU) and A&E. The doctors are trained in interventional procedures under ultrasound or CT guidance such as cyst aspiration, fluid and abscess drainage, biopsy of tumors.

Special Centers:

Children´s Trauma Center – one of the largest centers in Prague providing services for small children and young trauma patients including serious injuries requiring surgery.

Breast Screening and Diagnostic Center – performs both screening mammography for women 45 of age upward, and diagnostic clinics for symptomatic patients, breast ultrasound, breast interventional procedures (ultrasound-guided or stereotactic biopsies).

Family History Clinic – surveillance of women with a strong family history of breast cancer.

Head of the Department
Jitka Bočanová Mlejnková, MD
jitka.mlejnkova@ftn.cz
+420 261 082 385

Chief Radiologist
Bc. Marta Patrná
marta.patrna@ftn.cz
+420 261 083 280

Contact for English-speaking guests

lanngoc.leova@ftn.cz
halka.bitmanova@ftn.cz

Location
building B2: CT
building B3: X-ray, EGD, USS
building B5: X-ray CHILD, URO
building D: MAM
building G3: X-ray trauma
building X: MRI

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