Abdominal CT: Basics
Abdominal CT: Basics. How to speak like a radiologist. Here we review the basics of attenuation, enhancement and orientation
What is the role of Abdominal CT?
What is the role of Abdominal CT? When should you order and What are the alternate imaging options?
CT Case 017
An 80yo male is brought in by ambulance following an MVA where he rear-ended another vehicle while driving at 50km/hr.
CT Case 016
A 55-year-old lady presents with an abrupt drop in GCS following a severe occipital headache and vomiting for the preceding 24 hours.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 352
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 352 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
CT Case 015
An 80yo female with type II diabetes presents with 4 days of lower abdominal pain, associated with dysuria, haematuria and malaise.
CT Case 014
A 55yo lady presents with a two day history of subjective fevers and left flank pain. She has a past medical history including recurrent pyelonephritis and anaemia.
CT Case 013
A 65yo man presents with progressive drowsiness and confusion with a 1-week duration of dull headache. A CT brain is performed
Brown-Séquard Syndrome
Overview Brown-Séquard Syndrome results in weakness/paresis and loss of fine touch, proprioception and vibration sense ipsilaterally below the lesion, and loss of pain and temperature sensation contralaterally, beginning one to two levels below the lesion. Classic presentations are uncommon, and…
CT Case 012
An elderly lady from a high-level care nursing home is brought to ED by ambulance with abdominal pain, fevers, vomiting and diarrhoea.
CT Case 011
A 50yo male is brought to the ED after an OOHCA (out of hospital cardiac arrest) due to a large dose recreational fentanyl overdose.
Ralph Grover
Ralph Weir Grover (1920-2008) was an American Dermatologist. Grover disease (1970) - transient acantholytic dermatosis