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Abdominal CT: Windows advanced

Abdominal CT: Windows advanced. How do I adjust the window settings to evaluate ANY structure?

Abdominal CT: Windows basics. Changing the window settings and reviewing soft tissue, bone, and lung windows

Abdominal CT: Measuring attenuation. We can use attenuation to interrogate the images for fluid, masses and fatty infiltration

Abdominal CT: Planes. How is CT different from X-ray? What are the Computed Tomography planes - axial, coronal, and sagittal

Abdominal CT: Common Terms used to describe pathology seen on CT images. Including thickened, fat stranding and fluid

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? When should you order and What are the alternate imaging options?

An 80yo female with type II diabetes presents with 4 days of lower abdominal pain, associated with dysuria, haematuria and malaise.

An elderly lady from a high-level care nursing home is brought to ED by ambulance with abdominal pain, fevers, vomiting and diarrhoea.

February 2020 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Isolina R. Rossi, MD, Brian P. Shreve, MD and Kyle Cunningham, MD

January 2020 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Isolina R. Rossi, MD, Brian P. Shreve, MD and Kyle Cunningham, MD

Abdominal CT versus DPL: DPL has be replaced by FAST scan in nearly all situationspenetrating abdominal injuries -> require laparotomy