There is something strange about this chest x-ray of a neonate who has just arrived in ICU from the OR. What is the oddity and what are the implications?
Oncology Quandary 004
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A 45 year old woman with metastatic ovarian cancer is admitted for VATS pleurodesis and drainage of bilateral pleural effusions. Her admission chest X-ray is shown below:
A Fiendish Finding
December 16, 2009 By 5 Comments
A 21 year old female presents with acute onset of unrelenting abdominal pain and vomiting four years after a major motor vehicle accident. A chest X-ray is performed:
Fulminant pneumococcal pneumonia
December 8, 2009 By 4 Comments
A 27 year old female with metastatic ovarian cancer for whom treatment options have been exhausted arrives in the emergency department in extremis.
It’s not a bird or a plane…
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
18 year old man day 7 in ICU after jumping from a building. Tracheostomy performed the day before. Acute respiratory distress with inability to pass a suction catheter through the tracheostomy tube.
Quiz Radiology 001
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A previously well 23 year old man is brought to your Emergency Department acutely short of breath after developing left sided chest pain at work.
Radiology Oddity 004
October 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
Plombage: Treatment with Lucite balls – an early treatment for tuberculosis
Radiological Oddity 001
October 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Metallic jumper/cardigan presents as external artifact on CXR
