Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 40 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Showing you the last case before Summer vacation (July and August). Presenting radiographs of a 47-year-old man with moderate dyspnea.

Diagnosis:

1. Collapse of right lung
2. Right pneumonectomy
3. Congenital absence of right lung
4. None of the above

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Jun 2013
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Caceres’ Corner Case 72 (Update: Solution)

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Dear friends,

Showing post-operative radiographs of a 34-year-old male. Muppet saw the films without clinical information and was completely lost.

Can you interpret the findings and shame Muppet into early retirement? Check out the images below, post your thoughts and possible diagnoses in the comments section, and come back next Tuesday for the answer!

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Jun 2013
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 39 – SOLVED!

Diploma_casebook_case39Dear friends,

Presenting mammograms of a 45 y.o. woman with a palpable abnormality in the left breast.

Diagnosis:
1. Carcinoma
2. Fibroadenoma
3. Intrammamary lymph node
4. All of the above

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Caceres’ Corner Case 71 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

This week we’re presenting another case provided by my friend Jose Vilar: a 39-year-old woman with cough and moderate dyspnea.

Diagnosis:

1. Mediastinal fat
2. TB
3. LUL collapse
4. None of the above

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Jun 2013
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Caceres’s Corner Case 70 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Showing images of a pre-operative chest for inguinal hernia in a 72-year-old male.

Diagnosis:

1. Thyroid mass
2. Thymoma
3. Lymphoma
4. None of the above

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Jun 2013
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 37 – SOLVED!

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Dear friends,

Presenting images of a 65-year-old asymptomatic woman with left parotid mass.

Possible diagnosis:

1. Benign mixed tumor
2. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
3. Carcinoma
4. None of the above

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Caceres’s Corner Case 69 (Update: Solution)

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Dear friends,

Muppet is delighted to present a case provided by Dr. Vilar. The radiographs are of a 57-year-old woman with a chronic cough and mild fever who also suffered from TB in the past.

Diagnosis:
1. TB, bronchogenic spread
2. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
3. Sarcoid
4. None of the above

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May 2013
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 36 – SOLVED!

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Dear friends,

Presenting liver MR images of a 63-year-old diabetic woman with mild pain in the RUQ over the last few weeks.

Possible diagnoses:

1. Hepatocellular carcinoma
2. Hepatocellular adenoma
3. Liver angiomyolipoma
4. Liver metastases

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Caceres’s Corner Case 68 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Summer is near and Muppet wants to relax and show easy cases. The present one relates to an 80-year-old male with RUQ pain after embolisation of a liver tumour.

Diagnosis:

1. Pulmonary embolism
2. Pneumonia
3. Subpulmonary fluid
4. None of the above

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May 2013
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 35 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Today I’m presenting a 55-year-old male with pain in the right hemithorax.

Diagnosis:

1. Pulmonary infarction
2. Pneumonia
3. Carcinoma
4. None of the above

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