Dear Friends,
This week I am presenting a case that my wife saw three weeks ago. The radiographs belong to a 45-year-old man, asymptomatic. What will be your diagnosis?
Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section, and come back on Friday for the answer.
1. Enlarged azygos vein
2. Enlarged ymph node
3. Mediastinal mass
4. Any of the above
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Dear Friends,
I am presenting an unknown case (no final answer yet), but I believe that I have the answer, pending further studies. Radiographs belong to a 67-year-old woman and were taken during a routine check-up. Will show more images on Wednesday.
What do you see?
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Dear Friends,
Today, I am showing radiographs of a 68-year-old man with pain in the chest. What do you see?
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Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! To start 2018 with an easy case, I am showing pre-op PA radiograph and CT of a 49-year-old woman with carcinoma of the breast.
Diagnosis:
1. Metastasis
2. Neurogenic tumour
3. Duplication cyst
4. Any of the above
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Dear Friends,
Today I am showing radiographs of a close friend of mine, a 76-year-old man who had an abdominal CT for renal stones. Some abnormalities were detected at the base of the right lung, and chest radiographs and CT were done.
What do you see?
This is the last case of 2017. Next case will be presented on Monday, January 8. Wish you the best for the coming year!
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Dear Friends,
This will be the last Diploma Casebook case posted on the ESR Blog. Following the steps of Neymar, I have been offered a succulent contract by the European Board of Radiology and next year I will posting my cases on the EBR website, starting on Monday, January 15. I am excited about this new challenge and hope you will be too!
Radiographs of today’s case belong to a 76-year-old man with pain in the chest after a fall. What do you see?
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Dear Friends,
Vacation is near and in the Christmas spirit I am presenting two easy cases that I saw last week. Both are pre-op chest radiographs: Case 1 an 18-year-old man and case 2 a woman aged 48.
What do you see?
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Dear Friends,
Today I am showing pre-op PA radiograph of a non-European 48-year-old woman, with endometrial carcinoma.
What do you see?
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Dear Friends,
Today’s images belong to a 38-year-old woman treated with antibiotics for a sore throat with fever. Six days later she goes to the ER with left chest pain and moderate dyspnea.
What do you see?
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Dear Friends,
Today I am presenting radiographs of a 60-year-old man with a cough and moderate fever.
Diagnosis:
1. Viral pneumonia
2. Non-cardiac pulmonary edema
3. Pulmonary hemorrhage
4. None of the above
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