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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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 34 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Presenting MRI of lumbar spine in a 57-year-old male with lower-back pain.

Diagnosis:

1. Ependymoma
2. Meningioma
3. Paraganglioma
4. None of the above

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 33 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

This week’s case features a 78-year-old woman after close reduction of a dislocated hip prosthesis.

Diagnosis:
1. Acetabular cup fracture.
2. Dissociation of bipolar hemiarthroplasty
3. Postoperative foreign body.
4. None of the above

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 32

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 31 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

This week I am presenting a lateral radiograph of the cervical spine in a 45-year-old man with cervical pain and an acute spinal cord lesion after a hang gliding accident.

Diagnosis:
1. Flexion lesion
2. Extension lesion
3. Burst lesion
4. None of the above

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 30 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Showing MRI images of an 82-year-old woman with partial motor seizures afecting her face.

Diagnosis:
1. Metastasis
2. Meningioma
3. Multiple myeloma
4. None of the above

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 29 – SOLVED

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Dear Friends,

To finish the chapter on male breast disease I am showing mammograms with selected pathology in four different males with palpable retro-areolar lesions. Try to match each case (A-D) with the correct diagnosis.

1. Gynecomastia
2. Carcinoma
3. Epidermoid cyst
4. Simple cyst

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 28

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Dear Friends,

This week I’m showing a new ‘Face the Examiner’ case. Presenting the radiographs of a 49-year-old woman with dyspnea.

Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 27 – SOLVED

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Dear Friends,

This week we have the case of a 45-year-old man, who is an alcoholic with abdominal pain, jaundice, and weight loss.

Possible diagnoses:

1. Duodenal neoplasm
2. Focal pancreatitis of pancreatic head
3. Pancreatic neoplasm
4. None of the above

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 26 – SOLVED

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Dear Friends,

Today I’m showing a case of a 63-year-old man with left heart dysfunction and angor.

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