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Left sided carotid artery dissection
48 yo male with a hx of htn and occasional headache, blurry vision, periods of brief blindness, feels light headed ...
Pseudomonas bacteria
So pretty but so dangerous. This is #Pseudomonas, a non-fermenting Gram negative rod. What drug to use? Options: #Ticarcillin-clavulanate #Piperacillin-tazobactam ...
Pyelonephritis on kidney CT
Oblique coronal contrasted CT image of the kidneys in a teenager with flank pain & fever shows patchy foci of ...
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Endobronchial tumor on chest x-ray
female patient aged 22 y old no past history of any chronic disease presented with right sided chest pain radiating ...
Bibasilar pneumonia with effusion and COPD on chest x-ray
53 yo Caucasian smoker 0.5 ppd for 40 years presents with wheezing cough and SOB for 1 week does not ...
Family support
Sometimes those of us in the medical field really need to thank the families for getting involved as we talk ...
Tension pneumothorax on x-ray
RTA present with dyspnea and low SPO2 85 percent any thought ?!
Squamous cell carcinoma
65 yo male with (reportedly) 3 months of neck swelling, throat pain and dysphasia. He has lost 35 lbs in ...
Snake bite
This is hand of a victim bitten by a snake. Traditional healer(Ozha-Snake Charmer) incised his hand with blade to remove ...
Iron lung
Because of widespread vaccination, polio was eliminated from the Western Hemisphere in 1994. In 2016, it continues to circulate in ...
Folliculitis
28yo F with multiple sores on scalp. Originally thought to be severe dandruff. Exacerbated by wet hair worn tight against ...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
A team of researchers has identified inflammatory cells that play a key role in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The ...
NG tube in the right bronchus
Chest radiograph case 1: What is the primary abnormality on this radiograph? #chest #X-ray #BSPR
Rifampin causing orange urine
Want to guess this Patients rare diagnosis and the cause for this orange urine? I'll share the answer this evening!
Foreign body ingestion leading to aspiration
A case of pistachio nut aspiration. Foreign body was removed via rigit #Bronchoscopy. #Foreign-body #Aspiration #pistachio #thoracicsurgery #cough
Tracheo-innominate fistula
#Tracheo-innominate-fistula, a rare and often deadly complication of #Tracheostomy! Yellow arrow points to the tracheostomy stoma, black arrow points to ...
Speaking valve
PSA: this is why it's important to clean and replace speaking valves regularly.
Post nasal drip from rhinitis
Patient came in with a chief complaint of foreign body sensation. History started 3 days prior to consult when the ...
Viral tonsillitis
21 year old male, presents with pain at back of throat and under tongue, increased pain when swallowing for 2/52. ...
GERD
28 years old, complains of sore throat in duration of more than 2 weeks, at the begining intense pain followed ...
Pharyngeal swelling
Soft tissue swelling or mass? 27 y/o with cc congestion.
flash pulmonary oedema on chest x-ray
55 yo female hx HTN, asthma. To ED via medic c/o acute onset dyspnea and BLE edema x1 week. Pt ...
Swollen epiglottis in epiglottitis on x-ray
Lateral radiograph of the airway shows a markedly thickened epiglottis (arrow) and aryepiglottic folds. This appearance of the epiglottis has ...
congenital pulmonary hypoplasia
#Pulmonary-hypoplasia in a 22-week-old infant, delivered via spontaneous vaginal delivery for non-reassuring fetal heart tones, but stillborn on delivery. Note ...
Cystic hygroma
Male patient 2day with Cysric hygrooma
Erythema nodosum
Spot diagnosis. My first time seeing this in children.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome on chest x-ray
70y/o lady with ARDS. On lung protective strategies and prone ventilation. Subsequently developed this due to high PEEP ventilatory setting ...
post-tracheostomy cosmetic defect
Patient 18 y/o 1 year ago got injured in a road accident.Tracheostomy was done. Patient complains of cometic defect. Excision ...
foreign body removed from nose
this is the metal screw cap removed from the child's nose in my previous case
Pneumothorax on chest xray
DX amd Findings
inflammatory polyp of the right tonsil
inflammatory polyp of the right tonsil. Small polyploid lesions of the tonsil are not uncommon with chronic tonsillitis. This is ...
Atypical pneumonia on chest xray
49 yo male presented to urgent care complaining of right sided pleuritic chest pain x 3 hours and being unable ...
hypopharyngeal hematoma causing tracheal obstruction
Hypopharyngeal, floor of the mouth and submandibular hematoma. Fortunately epiglottis and true laryngeal structures were not affected, it was mostly ...