Dear Friends,
To mark the International Day of Radiology, which this year is focusing on paediatric imaging, we are presenting chest radiographs of a 5-year-old boy with an abdominal mass and mild fever. A Wilm’s tumour was suspected. Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back for the answer on Friday.
Diagnosis.
1. Pleural tumour in fissure
2. Pneumonia
3. Metastases
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Today’s images belong to a 35-year-old man with chest pain. What do you see?
Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
Dear Friends,
Today we are showing a case that our good friend Carles Vilá showed us three weeks ago. Images belong to a 44-year-old woman admitted with renal colic. What do you see?
Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
Dear Friends,
Today we are showing radiographs of a 34-year-old man with malaise and chest pain.
What do you see?
Check the images below, leave us your thoughts in the comments section, and come back on Friday for the answer.
Dear Friends,
This week’s case follows the pattern of a “Meet the examiner” presentation, with questions and answers similar to a real examination. Take your time before scrolling down for the answer. No peeking! My good friend Dr. Jordi Andreu has prepared the case.
Chest radiographs belong to a 69-year-old woman with cough, fever and purulent sputum for the last ten days. History of TB thirty years ago.
Diagnosis:
1. Reactivation TB
2. Mediastinal cyst
3. Mediastinal tumour
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Presenting chest radiographs of an 80-year-old man. Images were taken 24 hours after embolisation of hepatic metastases. What do you see?
Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
Dear Friends,
Today I am presenting chest radiographs of a 60-year-old man with vague chest complaints and mild cough.
What do you see in the images below? Leave your thoughts in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
Dear Friends,
I would like to start the fourth season with an easy case. Showing pre-op radiographs for facial surgery of a 31-year-old woman. Check the images below, leave me your thoughts in the comments section, and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Carcinoma of the lung
2. Subpulmonary fluid
3. Aspiration pneumonia
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Welcome back to your favourite corner! Starting with a warm-up case: pre-op radiograph prior to biopsy of a vocal cord nodule in a 57-year-old woman with hoarseness. Including a radiograph of the shoulder taken eight months earlier in which part of the left lung is seen.
Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments section, and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Widespread adenocarcinoma
2. TB
3. Sarcoidosis
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Today I’m showing a PA radiograph of a 49-year-old man with cough. Check out the image below, leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.
Diagnosis:
1. Mediastinal lesion
2. Pulmonary lesion
3. Both
4. Can’t tell
