Associate Professor of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Radiology
Dr. Sjirk J. Westra, MD
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Sjirk Westra is an expert in the field of Radiology. He has 9 awards "Certificate of Appreciation", "Partners in Excellence Award", "Honorable Mention", "Award for Reviewing, with Special Distinction", "Certificate of Merit", "Prize for Best Poster", "Award for Excellence in Ultrasound Research", "Selection Officielle du Festival" and "Mention Speciale de Jury". Sjirk Westra is a published doctor and has 66 publications published. The lastest was: 'Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography to evaluate need for cerebrospinal fluid drainage in hydrocephalic children.' Doctor Sjirk J. Westra, MD accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Mutations in TBX18 Cause Dominant Urinary Tract Malformations via Transcriptional Dysregulation of Ureter Development.
- The incidental pulmonary nodule in a child : Part 2: Commentary and suggestions for clinical management, risk communication and prevention.
- The incidental pulmonary nodule in a child : Part 1: recommendations from the SPR Thoracic Imaging Committee regarding characterization, significance and follow-up.
- Simplifying Size-Specific Radiation Dose Estimates in Pediatric CT.
- Dose reduction in pediatric abdominal CT: use of iterative reconstruction techniques across different CT platforms.
- The communication of the radiation risk from CT in relation to its clinical benefit in the era of personalized medicine : Part 2: benefits versus risk of CT.
- The communication of the radiation risk from CT in relation to its clinical benefit in the era of personalized medicine : Part 1: the radiation risk from CT.
- The Image Gently ALARA CT summit on new CT technologies for children.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria(®) Head Trauma-Child.
- Practice Patterns for the Use of Iodinated IV Contrast Media for Pediatric CT Studies: A Survey of the Society for Pediatric Radiology.
- Sensenbrenner syndrome (Cranioectodermal Dysplasia): Clinical and molecular analyses of 39 patients including two new patients.
- Antecedents of perinatal cerebral white matter damage with and without intraventricular hemorrhage in very preterm newborns.
- Entrance skin dosimetry and size-specific dose estimate from pediatric chest CTA.
- Oxygen Saturation Can Predict Pediatric Pneumonia in a Resource-Limited Setting.
- Diagnostic Reference Ranges for Pediatric Abdominal CT.
- Radiation Dose Reduction in Pediatric Cardiac Computed Tomography: Experience from a Tertiary Medical Center.
- Relationship between radiologist training level and fluoroscopy time for voiding cystourethrography.
- Radiation Dose Reduction with Hybrid Iterative Reconstruction for Pediatric CT.
- Chest trauma in children: current imaging guidelines and techniques.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 4-2011. A 4-year-old boy with back pain and hypercalcemia.
- Dose reduction and compliance with pediatric CT protocols adapted to patient size, clinical indication, and number of prior studies.
- Injuries and conditions of the extensor mechanism of the pediatric knee.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 21-2008. An 11-month-old boy with fever and pulmonary infiltrates.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 23-2007. A 9-year-old boy with bone pain, rash, and gingival hypertrophy.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 3-2007. A 3-year-old boy with recurrent episodes of respiratory insufficiency.
- Imaging evaluation of pediatric chest trauma.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 31-2004. A four-year-old boy with hypoxemia.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 40-2003. A 14-month-old boy with recurrent abdominal distention and diar...
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 13-2003. A 14-month-old boy with hepatomegaly, perianal lesions, and a b...
- Early cranial ultrasound lesions predict microcephaly at age 2 years in preterm infants.
- Chest radiological patterns predict the duration of mechanical ventilation in children with RSV infection.
- The imaging of paediatric thoracic trauma.
- Cranial ultrasound lesions in the NICU predict cerebral palsy at age 2 years in children born at extremely low gestational age.
- What imaging should we perform for the diagnosis and management of pulmonary infections?
- ''Hair-on-end'' skull changes resembling thalassemia caused by marrow expansion in uncorrected complex cyanotic heart disease.
- Developmental correlates of head circumference at birth and two years in a cohort of extremely low gestational age newborns.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 28-2004. Newborn twins with thrombocytopenia, coagulation defects, and h...
- Reader variability in the use of diagnostic terms to describe white matter lesions seen on cranial scans of severely premature infants: the ELGAN study.
- Observer variability assessing US scans of the preterm brain: the ELGAN study.
- Neonatal cranial ultrasound lesions and developmental delays at 2 years of age among extremely low gestational age children.
- Mechanisms of injury to white matter adjacent to a large intraventricular hemorrhage in the preterm brain.
- Right pulmonary aplasia, aberrant left pulmonary artery, and bronchopulmonary sequestration with an esophageal bronchus.
- Pulmonary emboli following therapeutic embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations in children.
- Omental infarct: CT imaging features.
- Cardiac electron-beam CT in children undergoing surgical repair for pulmonary atresia.
- Congenital bladder rupture and urine ascites secondary to a sacrococcygeal teratoma.
- Imaging of the adrenal gland in children.
- Noonan syndrome associated with neuroblastoma: a case report.
- The pediatric patient with suspected adrenal neoplasm: which radiological test to use?
- Perioperative transcranial Doppler US to evaluate intracranial compliance in young children undergoing craniosynostosis repair surgery.
- Imaging in pediatric liver transplantation.
- Normal US appearance of ovaries and uterus in four patients with Turner''s syndrome and 45,X karyotype.
- Omphalocele associated with intrapericardial diaphragmatic hernia.
- Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: use of the pyloric volume measurement in early US diagnosis.
- Pediatric intracranial vascular malformations: evaluation of treatment results with color Doppler US. Work in progress.
- Carotid artery volume flow: in vivo measurement with time-domain-processing US.
- Symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux: diagnosis with ultrasound.
- The value of portal vein pulsatility on duplex sonograms as a sign of portal hypertension in children with liver disease.
- Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography to evaluate need for cerebrospinal fluid drainage in hydrocephalic children.
- Three-dimensional helical CT of pulmonary arteries in infants and children with congenital heart disease.
- Radionuclide bone scintigraphy in patients with histiocytosis X.
- Decreased cortical and increased cancellous bone in two children with primary hyperparathyroidism.
- Spiral and ultrafast computed tomography for noninvasive cardiac imaging in children.
- Fast scanning permits imaging of heart defects.
- Ultrasound diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux and hiatal hernia in infants and young children.
Schools
Regional University of Groningen Faculty of Medical Science
Academic Hospital University Groningen
Academic Hospital University Leiden
Academic Med Center University Amsterdam
UCLA Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Certificate of Appreciation
- Partners in Excellence Award
- Honorable Mention
- Award for Reviewing, with Special Distinction
- Certificate of Merit
- Prize for Best Poster
- Award for Excellence in Ultrasound Research
- Selection Officielle du Festival
- Mention Speciale de Jury
Education
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University of Groningen Faculty of Medical Science
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1952391211 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | WESTRA |
| First Name Of The Provider | SJIRK |
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