Dear Friends,
Muppet wants to leave air-fluid levels behind and put your collective minds to work!
The first case of 2013 presents the radiographs of a 56-year-old female who came to the emergency room with syncope. There is an abnormal opacity in the aortic knob. What do you think it is?
Dear friends,
to celebrate the coming year Muppet wants to finish the chapter of air-fluid levels by showing you two patients with fever and malaise.
The question is: where is the fluid located?
Dear Friends,
In the best Christmas spirit, Muppet is presenting a nice case. These radiographs belong to an 86-year-old lady who came to the emergency room with chest pain. Pulmonary nodules were visible. What would be your diagnosis?
Dear Friends,
Continuing with the December sale, I am presenting the case of a 25-year-old epileptic male with three weeks of fever and one episode of haemoptysis.
Diagnosis:
1. Tuberculosis
2. Pulmonary abscess
3. Carcinoma of lung
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
We are having a December sale (everything must go!) and during this month Muppet will show only cases with air-fluid level. We start with a vintage case (2002) of a 76-year-old male with left lower lobe pneumonia.
Diagnosis:
1. Infected bulla
2. Congenital cyst
3. Pneumatocele
4. None of the above
Dear friends,
Muppet is in Chicago at the RSNA meeting. While looking for Miss Piggy, he found time to discover the following case: 65-year-old female asymptomatic.
Do you think the chest is normal? If not, then where is the abnormality?
Dear Friends,
After the trepidation of case 42, Muppet hopes you get this case easily. Sixty-eight-year-old male with pain in the chest.
Diagnosis:
1. Tuberculosis
2. Bronchoalveolar carcinoma
3. Actinomycosis
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Muppet is seriously considering retirement, seeing your level of expertise! You have nailed the previous two cases. We hope you diagnose the following one just as well: 45-year-old man with vague chest pains.
Diagnosis:
1. Aortic aneurysm
2. Intrathoracic goiter
3. Thymoma
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Since 100% of you gave correct answers in the previous case, Muppet believes you know it all and is considering retiring to a nunnery. Before he makes his final vows, he wants to show the case of a 35-year-old woman with a solitary calcified lung nodule, discovered in pre-op CT for a gastric tumour.
Diagnosis:
1. Granuloma
2. Chondroma
3. Hamartoma
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Muppet is so happy with your performance that he has chosen a challenging case. The following radiographs belong to a 52-year-old woman with two episodes of chest pain in six weeks. The initial radiograph is shown, as well as a radiograph taken during the second episode. At that time, a CT was done.
