[ad_1] This is the supine abdominal x-ray of a 25 year old who is intoxicated and has been complaining of abdominal pain with vomiting. She has presented to your facility with multiple overdose attempts before. What can you see? click to enlarge [peekaboo_link name=”Answer”]Answer[/peekaboo_link] [peekaboo_content name=”Answer”] The abdominal x-ray shows clumped radio-opaque tablets in the stomach. Family members later on…
[ad_1] A 40 year old man presents following a large overdose of an antispasmodic agent. Check out his ECG [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] This is the shoulder x-ray of a 16 year old patient who has sustained injury following a fall onto his left shoulder while playing rugby. Patient is not tender over the head or neck of humerus. What can you see? click to enlarge [peekaboo_link name=”Answer”]Answer[/peekaboo_link] [peekaboo_content name=”Answer”] The shoulder joint area appears normal and the lateral view was fine…
[ad_1] The following erect PA chest x-ray is from a 65 year old female patient with exertional dyspnoea and orthopnoea. There is an obvious cardiomegaly. What is the underlying valvular pathology? click to enlarge [peekaboo_link name=”Answer”]Answer[/peekaboo_link] [peekaboo_content name=”Answer”] This patient had mixed mitral valve disease diagnosed on echocardiogram. The 3 abnormalities suggestive of left atrial enlargement on the…
[ad_1] This thumb x-ray is from a 15 year old patient who fell on his outstretched hand and sustained an injury to his left thumb. What can you see ? click to enlarge click to enlarge [peekaboo_link name=”Answer”]Answer[/peekaboo_link] [peekaboo_content name=”Answer”] The x-ray shows avulsion fracture of the base of the medial aspect of proximal phalanx of the thumb. This…
[ad_1] This is the chest x-ray from a 40 year old man who has presented to the emergency department with a cough and mild dyspnoea. Anything obvious on the x-ray? Click to enlarge [peekaboo_link name=”Answer”]Answer[/peekaboo_link] [peekaboo_content name=”Answer”] The chest x-ray shows clear lung fields.There is no pleural effusion and no pneumothorax. The left diaphragm is higher compared…
[ad_1] We’re back with a new episode of Essential Evidence. This article is from Academic Emergency Medicine March 2009 and it talks about getting blood cultures in well appearing kids aged 3 to 36 months. We used to get a lot of blood cultures in these well appearing kids with fever but this article was…
[ad_1] This KUB xray is from a 55 year old diabetic man who presented to the ED at about 3am with unilateral colicky abdominal pain.You suspect he is suffering from ureteric colic. What does the xray show? [peekaboo_link name=”Answer”]Answer[/peekaboo_link] [peekaboo_content name=”Answer”] The x-ray does not show any radio-opaque calculus in the kidney ureter bladder area. There is an…
[ad_1] A 34 year old woman who is 3 days post-partum has presented with a sudden onset of central chest pain at 3 am. She has no previous medical illness. As part of investigations, a chest x-ray has been done and is as follows. What is seen on the x-ray? (It is very subtle) Click to enlarge…
[ad_1] You have just seen a previously well 5 year old with a history of left sided limping. According to the mum, the patient has had this problem for many weeks and the symptoms seem to be getting worse after a trivial fall sustained 24 hours ago. The mother is worried that her son might have sustained a fracture. Pelvic…