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Zippy accompanied me to work this morning. He observed the kind of work that I do as a radiologist quietly for about ten minutes. Then Zippy told me that he would like to read a few CT scans if it was okay with me.
He took a few minutes to brush up his radiology knowledge and [...]

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The medblogosphere’s most famous crustacean, Zippy the travelling lobster arrived at Salem earlier today.
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He does not travel light, as Gruntdoc has already said. But since this was a long trip half way across the world from Texas to Tamil Nadu, Zippy very graciously allowed Gruntdoc to pack light for him. He still required help from [...]

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Sodium MRI shows arthritis long before onset of physical symptoms:

Dr Garry Gold, an associate professor of radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine has improved an old imaging technology called sodium MRI to diagnose osteoarthritis as long as decades before the onset of physical symptoms.
While standard MRI gives a reasonable display of overall cartilage [...]

60-year-old patient with known deep vein thrombosis in the right lower limb developed shortness of breath.
Pulmonary CT Angiography was done.
Axial CECT image at the level of the Main Pulmonary Trunk, the Right and Left Pulmonary arteries shows acute thrombois in the distal Right and Left Pulmonary arteries at the hilum level.

Coronal Maximal Intensity Projection (MIP) [...]

25-year-old man with low grade fever and productive cough. Hazy opacity with a suspicious cavity was seen in the right mid zone in the chest radiograph. CT scan of the Thorax was done and was extended to include the upper Abdomen.
Coronal minimal Intensity Projection (MinIP. First figure below) and detail from oblique axial reformatted image [...]

45-year-old woman with progressive difficulty in breathing over two days. Brought to casualty in extreme distress. No breath sounds were heard on the left side of the chest on clinical examination.
Bedside chest radiograph showed a completely collapsed left lung with homogeneous soft tissue density in the left hemithorax. No mediastinal shift was evident. On questioning, [...]