Ultrasound Case 067
A 33 year old gardener presents a few days after receiving a penetrating injury from a palm frond. There is an entry wound and his thenar eminence is red, hot and swollen. You take a look...
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ECG Case 072
This ECG is from a 49 year old. He self-presented to the emergency department with chest pain. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
Ultrasound Case 065
Presentation A 24 year old male presents with 36 hours of right testicular pain. He is a poor historian and can’t provide details for the onset, although he has risk factors for sexually transmitted infection. His right testis is swollen…
Ultrasound Case 064
A 15 year old boy has had vomiting and diarrhoea for 2 days. He has developed increasing right iliac fossa pain which has suddenly increased and is colicky in nature.
Ultrasound Case 063
An 18 year old man returns from a back packing trip. He has developed generalized abdominal pain, fever and vomited a couple of times. The junior doctor is concerned he has appendicitis and asks you to perform an ultrasound.
Ultrasound Case 061
A 69 year old alcoholic patient presents with severe epigastric pain radiating through to his back. You are asked to exclude an abdominal aortic aneurysm and take a look with ultrasound.
Ultrasound Case 040
A 22 year old man presents with abdominal pain and diarrhoea. He has 3 months of intermittent diarrhoea sometimes with blood, accompanied with weight loss and abdominal discomfort.
Ultrasound Case 060
An 80 year old woman arrests in your department. She had presented an hour earlier with back pain. You start to prepare for a subcostal view of the heart and this is what you see.
Ultrasound Case 059
A 76 year old man has renal colic. You look at his aorta.
Ultrasound Case 031
A thin 17 year old male presents with right iliac fossa pain. He has had a recent viral illness and you wonder whether this is mesenteric adenitis.
Ultrasound Case 058
A 71 year old man presents with severe back pain and hypotension. You suspect abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
Ultrasound Case 057
A 68 year old man is brought in by ambulance with severe lower back and lower limb pain and paralysis. Clinically he has lower limb ischaemia and you wonder about aortic dissection as the cause.