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Archive for August, 2009

I’d love to go…

…and meet in the flesh all the fabulous people that I’ve come to know so well in the medblogosphere…
But don’t know if I would be able to
Well, I’ve developed a Zen-like attitude
It will happen if it’s destined to happen
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The worst case of pulmonary metastases that I have seen. 40-year-old woman, operated for primary lung malignancy (adenocarcinoma) a year ago. Note the reduced lung volume on the right side.
Further Reading:

emedicine article on Lung Metastases [Registration required, Free]

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…in four parts, from Paul Levy’s blog.
It is, says Paul, “From a friend of a friend,” and it starts thus…

My son is sleeping right now…had a rough weekend - his blood pressure dropped, his blood count was decreasing, and he had chest and neck pain. The clinical team adjusted his meds, gave him a unit [...]


Diagnosis: Coronary CT Angiogram showing Chronic Total Occlusion of a short segment of proximal LAD with reformation of flow in mid LAD via collaterals from the Conus branch of RCA.*


*Abbreviations used:

AM - Acute Marginal branch of RCA
CTO - Chronic Total Occlusion
D1 - First Diagonal branch of LAD
LAD - Left Anterior Descending artery
LCx - Left [...]


…and how we radiologists make a living! (via GruntDoc)

Radiology News


RSNA News: Early Radiology Exposure Could Lure Medical Students to Specialty: [via radRounds; Emphases are mine]

In a recent RSNA article, Dr. David Hovsepian MD and Dr. Terry Desser MD of Stanford’s Radiology Department … shed light onto what really leads medical students to choose a career in radiology. Often times, one wonders — how did [...]