Dear Friends,
After a short interlude, I am back with radiographs of a 71-year-old smoker with dyspnoea and haemoptysis. Previous history of TB. Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
PS. Good luck to everyone taking the European Diploma in Radiology examinations at ECR 2015 this week!
Diagnosis:
1. Active TB
2. Carcinoma of the lung
3. Bronchiectasis
4. None of the above
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Dear Friends,
Today I am showing radiographs of a 61-year-old woman who underwent surgery for ovarian carcinoma three years ago.
Examine the images below, leave your diagnosis in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Carcinoma of the lung
2. Metastases
3. Tuberculosis
4. None of the above
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Dear Friends,
This week I am presenting the radiographs of a 50-year-old man with chest pain. Check the images below, leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments, and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Multiple myeloma
2. Tumor of sternum
3. Fibrous tumour of pleura
4. None of the above
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Dear Friends,
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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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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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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Dear Friends,
This is the last case of the present term. I wish you all a very happy vacation. We will meet again in September.
The radiographs below belong to a 31-year-old man with vague chest pain. Diagnosis:
1. Aortic dissection
2. Aortic valve stenosis
3. Ascending aorta aneurysm
4. All of the above
Leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
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Dear Friends,
This week we are presenting radiography of a 64-year-old man with dyspea. Examin the images below, leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section, and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Mediastinal mass
2. Pulmonary nodule
3. Aortic aneurysm
4. None of the above
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Dear Friends,
Today I am presenting radiographs of of 41-year-old woman operated on for Ewing sarcoma of T-12 one year ago. Examine the images below, leave me your diagnosis in the comments and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Enlarged azygos vein
2. Mediastinal lymph node
3. Mediastinal mass
4. None of the above
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Dear friends,
Today I am presenting today chest radiographs of a 48-year-old man with previous resection of a carcinoid tumour of the ileum. Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Granulomas
2. Amyloidosis
3. Calcified metastases
4. None of the above
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