Caceres’ Corner Case 113 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Muppet came back in a good mood and wishes to present an easy case. Radiographs belong to a 73-year-old male smoker with a moderate cough. What do you see?

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

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Apr 2015
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Caceres’ Corner Case 112 (Update: Solution)

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Today we are showing PA radiographs of a 55-year-old woman, asymptomatic. The image presented is a reconstruction of a CT examination (no radiograph available). Muppet believes it is worth showing because it is an unusual disease and has teaching value. What do you see?

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Mar 2015
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 72 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Today I am presenting radiographs of a 51-year-old man with low-grade fever and malaise. Previous history of car accident.

Do you see any abnormalities?

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Caceres’ Corner Case 111 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

After the ECR, we all deserve an easy case. Showing routine control radiographs of a 51-year-old man operated on for synovial sarcoma of his right leg fourteen years ago.

Do you see any abnormality?

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Mar 2015
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 71 – SOLVED!

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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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Caceres’ Corner Case 110 (Update: Solution)

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Dr. Pepe has eloped to the Bahamas with Miss Piggy and forgot to prepare the Diploma case. Hope he returns happy and suntanned. In the meantime I will show images of a 57-year-old woman with acute chest pain and mild fever. Check the images below, leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.

Diagnosis:

1. Pneumonia
2. Pulmonary infarct
3. Pleural fluid
4. None of the above

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Feb 2015
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Caceres’ Corner Case 109 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Muppet insists on showing the following case that he saw recently: preoperative chest radiographs of a 25-year-old male with seminoma. Check the images below, leave us your thoughts in the comments, and come back on Friday for the answer.

Diagnosis:

1. Tuberculosis
2. Metastases
3. Mucous impaction
4. None of the above

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Feb 2015
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 70 – SOLVED!

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Dear Friends,

Today I am showing chest radiographs of a 34-year-old male with dyspnea. Check the images below, leave your diagnosis in the comements section and come back on Friday for the answer.

Diagnosis:

1. Mitral disease
2. Pulmonary arterial hypertension
3. Interstitial pneumonia
4. None of the above

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09
Feb 2015
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Caceres’ Corner Case 108 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Muppet is in Naples this week and left me alone to present the case of a 58-year-old man, asymptomatic. Check the images below, leave me your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section, and come back on Friday for the answer.

Diagnosis:

1. Epicardial fat pad
2. Morgagni’s hernia
3. Pericardial cyst
4. None of the above

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Feb 2015
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Dr. Pepe’s Diploma Casebook: Case 69 – SOLVED!

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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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