Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 65 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Radiographs of this week’s case belong to a 55-year-old woman, referred to our hospital for percutaneous biopsy of a lung lesion. Leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section below and come back for the answer on Friday.

Diagnosis:
1. Carcinoma
2. Tuberculosis
3. Congenital lesion
4. Any of the above

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Nov 2014
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Caceres’ Corner Case 102 (Update: Solution)

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Today we are showing radiographs of a 61-year-old man who has had several pulmonary infections during recent years.
What do you see? Leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back for the answer on Friday.

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Nov 2014
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 64 – SOLVED!

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Showing today pre-op radiographs for knee surgery of a 17-year-old girl. Check the images below, leave your diagnosis in the comments section and come back on Friday for answer.

Diagnosis:

1. Branchial cyst
2. Neurogenic tumour
3. Lymphocele
4. None of the above

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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 63 – SOLVED!

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Today I am presenting the case of a 43-year-old man with lymphoma, admitted with fever and left pleural effusion. Radiographs were taken after pleural fluid drainage. Check the images below, leave me your diagnosis in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.

Diagnosis:
1. Pneumonia
2. LLL collapse
3. Pleural fluid
4. None of the above

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Caceres’ Corner Case 100 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Muppet and I are very happy to have reached one hundred cases. We hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. Radiographs of this case belong to a 52-year-old man with vague chest complaints. He was operated on for testicular tumour fifteen years earlier.

Check the images below, leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section, and come back on Friday to find out the answer.

Diagnosis:

1. Duplication cyst
2. Lymphangioma
3. Metastasis from testicular tumour
4. None of the above

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Oct 2014
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 62 – SOLVED!

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Today I am showing PA chest and sagittal CT of a 66-year-old woman with a persistent RLL infiltrate and negative bronchoscopy. Check the images below, leave me your thoughts in the comments section, and come back on Friday for the answer.

Diagnosis:
1. Tuberculosis
2. Chronic aspiration pneumonia
3. Carcinoma
4. None of the above

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Caceres’ Corner Case 99 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Muppet is very excited because case 100 is only two weeks away. In the meantime, he wants to present a simple case that we saw one month ago. The radiographs below belong to a 53-year-old man with cough and fever. What do you see?

Leave your thoughts in the comments and come back on Friday for the answer.

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Sep 2014
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 61 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Today I am presenting pre-op chest films of a 48-year-old man with renal carcinoma. How will you define the lesion at the right cardiophrenic angle?

1. Benign nodule
2. Primary malignancy
3. Metastatic nodule
4. Can’t tell

Check the images below, leave your answer in the comments and come back on Friday for the answer.

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Caceres’ Corner Case 98 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

With your welfare in mind, Muppet has selected this week’s case. Radiographs belong to a 76-year-old woman, admitted to the hospital with moderate fever and vomiting.

Diagnosis:

1. Aspiration pneumonia
2. Tracheomegaly and pneumonia
3. Pneumonia and pericarditis
4. None of the above

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Sep 2014
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 60 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Today I am showing chest radiographs of a 78-year-old woman with moderate dyspnoea. Check the images below, leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments, and come back on Friday for the answer.

Diagnosis:

1. Mitral valve calcification
2. Pericardial calcification
3. Calcified ventricular aneurysm
4. None of the above

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