“…The term “emergency” refers to a serious, often progressive clinical situation that calls for immediate diagnostic and therapeutic action. Although this is an old issue, approaches to this critical issue have deeply changed in the last three decades thanks to the impact of modern imaging, which has revolutionized the clinical “classic paradigm” based on observation, physical examination and diagnosis [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. Today, diagnosis via imaging has almost entirely replaced physical examination in the emergency room, and the Radiologist has become of primary importance in this setting.…”