Due to the diverse diagnostic imaging techniques available (x-ray/CT, Magnetic Resonance,
Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasonography) radiologic examinations are made of an enormous amount of
images, which means that the elements to be described and interpreted by the radiologist are
sometimes exorbitant. Furthermore, the expectations of the population and the ones of the
physicians requiring examinations are growing, so that besides patients, also so-called
clients (i.e., supposed healthy people) flow into everyday clinical practice of a radiology
department, based on disease prevention/screening programs. Registration and interpretation/
reporting modules of a computer-assisted radiologic reporting system were created to help
the radiologist in his task. However, the radiologist is also expected to write a report with
a diversified language, according to diagnostic technique(s), population type (client vs.
patient; pediatric, adult, geriatric), pathology, and across all body areas. The authors
wish to suggest a shared methodology to uniform as much as possible the way of writing
a radiologic report, how to most effectively communicate the results of an examination.
The important role played by language also from a legal-forensic point of view is also
considered.

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