Dear Friends,
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
Dear Friends,
Muppet is feeling very guilty about the difficulty of case 100. To regain your sympathy, he has selected an easy case: radiographs belong to a 53-year-old woman with moderate pain in the right hemithorax for the last six months. Where is the lesion?
1. Lung
2. Mediastinum
3. Pleura/chest wall
4. Can’t tell
Check the images below, leave your thoughts in the comments sectiona and come back on Friday for the answer.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Dear Friends,
Muppet wants to start the new season with a warm-up case, provided by my good friend and former resident Carles Vilá. Images belong to a 62-year-old woman who has had a dry cough for the last six months. Chest radiograph was normal and a CT was taken.
Diagnosis:
1. Coin
2. Chicken bone
3. Pencil lead
4. None of the above
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.
