A 35 year old homeless man presents with two months of increasing cough. He has no other medical past history.
Pneumonia gone bad
December 15, 2009 By View Comments
Consider a 56 year old male with no past medical history presenting with 10 days of fevers, chills, myalgias and cough followed by worsening breathlessness over the past 4 days.
Roast duck and juniper beer?
November 30, 2009 By View Comments
Consider a 73 year old female admitted with vomiting and subsequent chest pain.
This is her admission chest X-ray.
Quiz Radiology 023
November 8, 2009 By View Comments
An 18 year old woman with a history of asthma since childhood presents with a one month history of weight loss, cough and malaise. She has been treated with two courses of antibiotics by her local GP. She now presents with increasing shortness of breath. A CXR is shown.
Quiz Radiology 019
November 7, 2009 By View Comments
A distressed 60 year old man from a nursing home is brought into the ED having ‘choked on his dentures’.
Quiz Paediatrics 014
November 7, 2009 By View Comments
A two month old baby girl has been intubated for respiratory distress and drowsiness. The PaO2 is 82% post intubation.
Quiz Paediatrics 009
November 4, 2009 By View Comments
An 11 year old female with Down’s syndrome presents with acute respiratory distress following a 3 day history of fever, rhinorrhoea and dry cough. A CXR is performed following her intubation.
Quiz Radiology 009
November 4, 2009 By View Comments
A 52 year old woman presents to your emergency department with gradually increasing breathlessness over the preceding three days. It is one week since her last chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Quiz Radiology 008
November 4, 2009 By View Comments
A 20 year old man presents to your emergency department with central chest pain that commenced after recreational drug use at a party two hours earlier.
Quiz Radiology 006
September 28, 2009 By View Comments
An 80 year old male pedestrian is brought to your emergency department 30 minutes after being struck by a motorcycle at high speed.
Describe and interpret his Chest X-ray.
Radiological Oddity 001
October 13, 2008 By View Comments
By my very nature I am prone to eclecticism yet through my profession I am defined by form, structure and sequential progression. As such I feel bound to assuage your troubled mind that my ‘knights move’ thinking does indeed belie a true and steady course. Medical meanderings – like a river of thought – are [...]
