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Low-dose CT Screening for Lung Cancer
12 Comments Published by Vijay December 16th, 2010 in CT, Health Economics, Healthcare, Medical Research, Medicine, News, Radiology, Radiology Journals…
From the transcript of a video by Dr. Mark G. Kris, MD, Chief, Thoracic Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, published in MedscapeRadiology [Registration required. Free] speaking on the recent announcement by the National Cancer Institute about the release of data from the National Lung Screening Trial [Abstract & link below].
…we have never had a screening [...]
3D CT scan of a 300-year-old pocket watch
10 Comments Published by Vijay October 16th, 2010 in Artifacts, CT, Cool Stuff, Friends, History, News, Science, twitter…
Via this tweet by @thestudentdoc.
[Raphael was alluding to these two posts]
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What makes a 300-year-old pocket watch tick? : Nature News
State-of-the-art X-ray scans have revealed the internal mechanisms of a corroded, barnacle-covered pocket watch recovered from a seventeenth-century wreck. The watch looks little more than a lump of rock from the outside, but the scans show [...]
CT Users Meet
3 Comments Published by Vijay August 5th, 2010 in CT, Cardiac CT, Healthcare, Life in India, MDCT, Medicine, Radiology…
I started writing this on the way back home from a meeting that I attended over last weekend. This has remained a rough draft for the past three days. I decided to publish it now with minimal changes. Else this too shall remain in my drafts folder for a long enough time to become irrelevant.
The [...]
Radiology in MSM
3 Comments Published by Vijay May 4th, 2010 in Brain, CT, Medicine, News, Radiology…
Presenting one of the rare occasions in which radiology features in the mainstream media…
[Image source: Afghanistan, April, 2010 - The Big Picture. The Boston Globe]
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The caption to this image (photo number 3 in The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture article Afghanistan, April, 2010) reads…
A CAT Scan shows the placement of a 14.5 millimeter high explosive [...]
scanman’s casebook: Case 23
3 Comments Published by Vijay February 17th, 2010 in CT, MDCT, Radiology, casebook…
A young adult (mid thirties), a known case of non-specific aortoarteritis (Takayasu’s arteritis) was referred for a CT scan of the Abdomen including a CT Aortogram to rule out mesenteric ischemia.
The inital plain (no IV or oral contrast) CT scan did not show any evidence of abdominal pathology. So a CT Aortogram was done.
The following [...]
Paul Levy on Safe, Quality Hospital Care
5 Comments Published by Vijay September 29th, 2009 in Blogging, CT, Friends, Healthcare, Hospitals, Humour, Life in India, Medical blogs, Medicine, New Media…
Note: Though this is a medical post that concerns hospital care in the USA, I believe the issues covered in these videos are universally applicable to hospitals and patients all over the world. I urge everyone, especially those visitors who are not from the USA to view the videos.
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In a series of three short [...]
AMS vs Giddiness
0 Comments Published by Vijay September 8th, 2009 in CT, Friends, Medical blogs, Medicine, Radiology…
via Movin’ Meat: AMS.
I haven’t looked at the numbers lately, but Altered Mental Status, or AMS, must be in the top ten, if not the top five most common ER presentations. AMS, as a triage complaint, is like a bizarre little birthday present for an ER doc. You just don’t know what you’re [...]
scanman’s casebook: Case 22
0 Comments Published by Vijay August 27th, 2009 in CT, Chest, Radiology, casebook…
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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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