Abdominal CT: bowel perforation
Abdominal CT: bowel perforation. Perforation of the gastrointestinal tract can be due to a variety of causes.
Abdominal CT: peptic ulcer perforation
Abdominal CT: peptic ulcer perforation. The pattern of fluid, air, and inflammation help to locate the source of perforation.
Abdominal CT: peptic ulcer disease
Abdominal CT: peptic ulcer disease. Recognising peptic ulcer disease and key CT findings to increase radiological suspicion
Abdominal CT: enteritis and colitis
Abdominal CT: enteritis and colitis. Identifying enteritis and colitis, we review the most common presentations of gastrointestinal tract inflammation
Abdominal CT: closed loop
Abdominal CT: closed loop obstruction. Identifying closed loop small bowel obstruction from adhesions, hernia or volvulus
Abdominal CT: small bowel obstruction
Abdominal CT: small bowel obstruction. Diagnosing small bowel obstruction examining bowel dilatation, transition point and faecalisation
Abdominal CT: appendicitis
Abdominal CT: appendicitis. Identifying acute appendicitis, perforated appendix and abscess formation
Abdominal CT: Cancer staging
Many cancer staging studies are performed with a single portal venous phase examination. However, there are several cancers that require multiphasic exams
Abdominal CT: Phases
To make sense of CT exams, we need to understand what happens after we inject IV contrast and how it results in tailored CT examinations
Löffler syndrome
Löffler (Loeffler) syndrome is a transient, self-limiting, and benign pulmonary eosinophilia, characterised by pulmonary opacities on X-ray, elevated blood eosinophils and an acute onset of potential symptoms of mainly cough and dyspnoea.
Wilhelm Löffler
Wilhelm Löffler (1887 – 1972) was a Swiss physician. Löffler is eponymously associated with two clinical manifestations of eosinophilia which he described: transient pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (Löffler syndrome, 1932) and endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler endocarditis, 1936).
François Calot
Jean-François Calot (1861-1944) was a French surgeon. Eponymously associated with Calot’s Triangle (cystohepatic triangle) (1890)