J. Herman Kan, MD

Personal Statement

Dr. Kan is the head of musculoskeletal imaging at Texas Children's Hospital and Professor of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine. His clinical experience is based in pediatric radiology and he is board certified in diagnostic radiology with an additional subspecialty certification (CAQ) in pediatric radiology. Dr. Kan completed both a general pediatric radiology fellowship and a second year pediatric radiology fellowship focusing on musculoskeletal imaging. He performs all aspects of pediatric radiology in addition to multimodality imaging and interventional musculoskeletal imaging, including image-guided steroid injections, aspirations and ultrasound-guided ganglion cyst fenestrations. He has authored or co-authored 82 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 18 textbook chapters and co-authored the textbook “Pediatric and Adolescent Musculoskeletal MRI: A Case-Based Approach.” 

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* Texas Children’s Hospital physicians’ licenses and credentials are reviewed prior to practicing at any of our facilities. Sections titled From the Doctor, Professional Organizations and Publications were provided by the physician’s office and were not verified by Texas Children’s Hospital.

Should isolated superolateral Hoffa's fat pad edema identified by MRI be reported or ignored in adolescent patients?

Salman R, May MM, Kan JH.Clin Imaging. 2023 Sep;101:161-166. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2023.06.014. Epub 2023 Jun 23.PMID: 37379712

Pediatric Bassett's ligament: pathology or normal anatomy?

Utturkar AA, Ditzler MG, Schallert EK, Jadhav SP, Smith BG, Gladstein AZ, Kan JH.Pediatr Radiol. 2021 Jun;51(7):1237-1242. doi: 10.1007/s00247-020-04942-4. Epub 2021 Feb 17.PMID: 33595702

Percutaneous ultrasound-guided ganglion fenestration in children: initial results.

Schallert EK, Cano MC, Ditzler MG, Jadhav SP, Jose J, Kan JH.Skeletal Radiol. 2021 Jun;50(6):1169-1175. doi: 10.1007/s00256-020-03662-y. Epub 2020 Nov 6.PMID: 33156396

Bone age determination using only the index finger: a novel approach using a convolutional neural network compared with human radiologists.

Reddy NE, Rayan JC, Annapragada AV, Mahmood NF, Scheslinger AE, Zhang W, Kan JH.Pediatr Radiol. 2020 Apr;50(4):516-523. doi: 10.1007/s00247-019-04587-y. Epub 2019 Dec 20.PMID: 31863193

Spica MRI predictors for epiphyseal osteonecrosis after closed reduction treatment of dysplasia of the hip.

Haruno LS, Kan JH, Rivlin MJ, Rosenfeld SB, Schallert EK, Zhu H, Shenava VR.J Pediatr Orthop B. 2019 Sep;28(5):424-429. doi: 10.1097/BPB.0000000000000606.PMID: 30807510

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