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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.
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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 [...]

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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.
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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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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 [...]

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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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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.*
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*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 [...]

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via AuntMinnie [Registration required.Free]

Ordering CT examinations for children younger than age 6 who are admitted to an emergency department for a headache seldom aids in diagnosis, exposes the child to unnecessary radiation, and is a waste of money. While pediatric neurologists and emergency physicians at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, weren’t quite [...]