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Tal Laor, MD

Radiologist

Division Co-Chief, Musculoskeletal Imaging

Professor, Division of Pediatric Radiology

Phone: 513-636-8345

Fax: 513-636-8145

Email: tal.laor@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases in children; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); computed tomography (CT)

Biography

Tal Laor, MD, received her medical degree from Harvard University. She completed a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and did her pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Dr. Laor was assistant professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and on the staff at Boston Children's Hospital. In 1998, she joined the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Department of Radiology, where she is chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging.

Dr. Laor's interests are of skeletal injuries to the immature child, congenital abnormalities, and normal and abnormal bone growth and development.

Education and Training

BA: Brown University, Providence, RI; 1982.

MD: Harvard University, Boston, MA; 1986.

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 1987-1991.

Fellowships: Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; 1991-1993.

Certification: Diagnostic Radiology, American Board of Radiology, 1991; 2005 Maintenance of Certification in Pediatric Radiology, American Board of Radiology; Certificate of Added Qualifications, Pediatric Radiology, American Board of Radiology, 1995.

Publications

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Meyers AB, Laor T, Zbojniewicz AM. Stump entrapment of the anterior cruciate ligament in late childhood and adolescence. Pediatr Radiol. 2011 Jan 18.

Wagner LM, Gelfand MJ, Laor T, Ryckman FC, Al-Ghawi H, Bove KE. A Welcome Surprise: Nodular Fasciitis Presenting as Soft Tissue Sarcoma. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2011 May;33(4):316-9.

Kim HK, Laor T, Graham TB, Anton CG, Salisbury SR, Racadio JM, Dardzinski BJ. T2 relaxation time changes in distal femoral articular cartilage in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a 3-year longitudinal study. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2010 Oct;195(4):1021-5.

Desai R, Parikh S, Laor T. Intra-articular entrapment of the medial collateral ligament. Orthopedics. 2010 Sep 7;33(9):687.

Kalkwarf HJ, Laor T, Bean JA. Fracture risk in children with a forearm injury is associated with volumetric bone density and cortical area (by peripheral QCT) and areal bone density (by DXA). Osteoporos Int. 2011 Feb;22(2):607-16.

Costa NS, Laor T, Donnelly LF. Superior cervical extension of the thymus: a normal finding that should not be mistaken for a mass. Radiology. 2010 Jul;256(1):238-42.

Kim HK, Laor T, Horn PS, Racadio JM, Wong B, Dardzinski BJ. T2 mapping in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: distribution of disease activity and correlation with clinical assessments. Radiology. 2010 Jun;255(3):899-908. Erratum in: Radiology. 2010 Sep;256(3):1016.

Kim HK, Laor T, Horn PS, Wong B. Quantitative assessment of the T2 relaxation time of the gluteus muscles in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a comparative study before and after steroid treatment. Korean J Radiol. 2010 May-Jun;11(3):304-11.

Ladd PE, Laor T, Emery KH, Salisbury SR, Parikh SN. Medial collateral ligament of the knee on magnetic resonance imaging: does the site of the femoral origin change at different patient ages in children and young adults? J Pediatr Orthop. 2010 Apr-May;30(3):224-30.

Laor T. Hip and groin pain in adolescents. Pediatr Radiol. 2010 Apr;40(4):461-7. Review. Erratum in: Pediatr Radiol. 2010 Aug;40(8):1461.