Radiology Grand Rounds-V

Welcome to the Fifth Edition of the monthly summary of the best in the Radiology Blogsosphere known as “ Radiology Grand Rounds”. Grand Rounds is an old tradition that doctors have. Once a week, they get together and talk about one case in detail. Keeping up with this tradition this Carnival of Medical Imaging has been named “Radiology Grand Rounds”. Every physician would agree that Subspecializtion is the need of the hour in medical field, hence the concept of a specialized Radiology Grand Rounds. Radiology Grand Rounds will be hosted on last Sunday of each month, the schedule and archive will be available at- Radiology Grand Rounds. I would like to thank all the contributors for this edition of Radiology Grand Rounds.

This Edition I will start with a tribute to the person responsible for the discovery of the science of Radiology Or X-Rays and the story associated with the X-ray discovery.

The Beginning Of The Science Of Radiology




"On the evening of November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen found that, if the discharge tube is enclosed in a sealed, thick black carton to exclude all light, and if he worked in a dark room, a paper plate covered on one side with barium platinocyanide placed in the path of the rays became fluorescent even when it was as far as two metres from the discharge tube. During subsequent experiments he found that objects of different thicknesses interposed in the path of the rays showed variable transparency to them when recorded on a photographic plate. When he immobilised for some moments the hand of his wife in the path of the rays over a photographic plate, he observed after development of the plate an image of his wife's hand which showed the shadows thrown by the bones of her hand and that of a ring she was wearing, surrounded by the penumbra of the flesh, which was more permeable to the rays and therefore threw a fainter shadow. This was the first "röntgenogram" ever taken. In further experiments, Röntgen showed that the new rays are produced by the impact of cathode rays on a material object. Because their nature was then unknown, he gave them the name X-rays."
Reference- Nobelprize.org

Patient Information

Dr. Kavokin presents Patient Information on Medical Imaging technique known as Ultrasound followed by a Quiz.

"Let's say you have a belly pain. Did you ever get it?Let's say this time the pain is really unbearable. What will you do? Where would you go? You should rush to a doctor.When you arrive to ER, doctor asks you lots of questions. How bad is pain, where is it located, where does it refer (go)? Any nausea, vomiting, defecation problems and so on. He will also ask about your history. Then he looks up for your past problems in your written history or history stored on computer.He will listen your lungs, palpate your belly, sometime even causing more pain by touching. Eventually he suspects a disease and confirms it with some type of the tests. What tests will he choose? There will be blood work, urinalysis and some other analysis.Eventually you will probably go into the radiology department to get some imaging test. Abdominal US"


Featured Cases

Mikhail Serebrennik of Filmjacket.com has submitted this case. Its Scary for Sure!

Case Details-One (relatively senior!) surgical resident at our hospital, who no longer works here, has punctured the left chest wall with a trochar in an attempt to place a left thoracic pigtail drainage catheter. You can be the judge of the resulting situation. The chest tube ended up in the left ventricle!

Bhavin's Blog Features an interesting case of Subependymal heterotopia

The MRI images show a smooth, nodular area, isointense to grey matter, on all pulse sequences, along the margin of the atrium of the right lateral ventricle.

Hot Discussion Topics From Sumer's Radiology Site
(comments and suggestions on each topic are welcome)




Seems like Canada is also looking towards Teleradiology

Will Radiologists Keep Control Over Ultrasound?

Medical Tourism

Radiologists Shortage

Who should read a Coronary CT angiogram?



What is New In the Top Radiology Journals





Am J Roentgenol

Clinical Radiology

Radiographics

Radiology

Film Jacket.com now offers New Radiology Video Database - the Video Jacket.

That wraps up this month's highlights of the Radiology blogosphere. Hope the readers enjoyed the Fifth edition of the Radiology Grand Rounds. If you liked any of these blogs, keep visiting them. Please email me at sumerdoc@yahoo.com if you are interested in hosting future Radiology Grand Rounds. Archive for the Radiology Grand Rounds here-Radiology Grand Rounds. Be sure to tune in Next Month Last Sunday 26th November, when Grand Rounds will be hosted at- Spot Diagnosis Send the Submissions to- bhavin@jankharia.com