Category Archives: Imaging
EM Notes – Nuclear Medicine
EM Notes – Magnetic Resonance Scanning (MRI)
EM Notes – Ultrasound
EM Notes – CT
EM Topic – Radiology
Imaging Case of the Week 125
This lumbar spine AP x-ray is from a 52 year old chronic alcoholic with low back pain. What incidental finding can you observe on the x-ray? Continue reading
The daily educational pearl – grading SAH
This is the CT brain of a 43 yo man brought in by ambulance after he collapsed at home. GCS is 3. What does the CT show?
Lapband ‘O’ sign
The daily educational pearl – features of ischaemic CVA on CT
CT findings that suggest the presence of an ischaemic CVA
– loss of grey/white matter differentiation
– effacement of cortical sulci
– local mass effect
– parenchymal hypodensity
– obscuration of lentiform nucleus
– hyperdense cerebral artery (middle most commonly) – associated with higher risk of haemorrhagic transformation and contraindication to thrombolysis