Abdominal CT: Basics
Abdominal CT: Basics. How to speak like a radiologist. Here we review the basics of attenuation, enhancement and orientation
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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 060
50-year-old male, presents to the ED describing right sided scalp swelling following a fall. He described a generalised headache, and in ED was noted to be confused with left sided weakness.
CT Case 059
A 90-year-old man is brought in to ED from his nursing home with lethargy, confusion and fever. He is very tender in the right upper quadrant.
CT Case 058
A 35-year-old woman presents with generalised abdominal pain, associated with 3 weeks of abdominal distension.
CT Case 057
An 85-year-old woman presented with central abdominal pain and vomiting. Clinical exam reveals a large tender midline upper abdominal mass, there was suspicion for an epigastric hernia.
CT Case 056
A 40-year-old female presents with fever, pleuritic chest pain and abdominal pain. She is too unwell to provide a history when she first arrives.
CT Case 053
A 25-year-old man is brought in by ambulance having been found on the side of a motorway after a presumed pedestrian vs car accident.
CT Case 052
A 50-year-old woman presents with 4 days of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and inability to open her bowels. You suspect a bowel obstruction...
CT Case 051
A 40-year-old male presents in a shocked state with less than 24 hours of perianal and perineal pain
CT Case 050
A 50-year-old man presents to the ED with central abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fevers and a tender erythematous umbilical mass.
CT Case 045
A 95-year-old female is transferred from a nursing home complaining of severe generalised abdominal pain and fevers.