I stepped off my back decking into a hole the dog had carefully manicured in the lawn. A combination of plantar flexion and inversion resulted in a rather swollen ankle you see in the first image. I managed it conservatively but at 6 weeks it still felt a bit boggy and unstable. A case of physician scan thyself
A 28 year old with reduced GCS after several seizures requires intubation. Their neck extension seems limited and you wonder whether this may be a difficult intubation. You decide to monitor it with ultrasound.
A 75 year old man with a history of fibrosing alveolitis, on home oxygen presented with chest and neck pain, a strange and altered voice and itchy sensation in his throat, and swelling of his neck. It had gradually worsened over 10 days prior to presentation
A 35 year old man presents with a swollen and uncomfortable right arm. He states his arm feels heavy and weak. You perform a vascular ultrasound
Presentation A 23 year old man presents with presumed Achilles rupture. It’s an odd age to rupture one’s Achilles tendon and he hasn’t been on fluoroquinolones so you take a look. He described a few weeks of heel pain –…
A 27 year old man presents with pain localised to the RIF. Clinically there is mild psoas irritation and tenderness to deep palpation without frank peritonism.
43 year old male develops minor scrotal discomfort and an ultrasound is requested. A mysterious case of the Dancing Megasperm and the filarial dance.
A 70 year old man was admitted to hospital with a "viral illness". A peripheral IV cannula was inserted into his right cubital fossa
A previously well 56 year old presents after a flight. She has had some fleeting chest discomfort and some mild shortness of breath.
Presentation A previously well 49 year old man presents with chest pain. He is tachycardic, tachypneoic and hypoxic with blood pressure 110 He is 2 weeks post ankle surgery. Describe and interpret these scans
A 48 year old woman presents with RUQ pain of 3 days duration. She has had several similar briefer episodes but on this occasion it has not settled and she has developed jaundice.
A 47 year old man falls 4m onto a wall, hitting his left chest wall. He is complaining of chest pain and you wonder whether there is a pneumothorax. Describe and interpret these scans