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Critical, Deadly and Dangerous Radiology Diagnoses

23 September, 201411 October, 2012 by Mark Yoffe, MD

The most important, critical, deadly and dangerous radiology diagnoses are, inter alia (and roughly from top to bottom): Head Skull (including orbital) fracture, meningitis, intracranial bleeding (epidural hematoma, subdural hematoma, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage), space occupying lesions (abscesses, tumors), traumatic brain injury, brain herniation, hydrocephalus, ischemic stroke, endophthalmitis, rhinocerebral mucormycosis, malignant external otitis Neck and cervical spine Carotid artery dissection … Read more

Book Review: Comprehensive Radiographic Pathology

4 October, 201427 September, 2012 by Mark Yoffe, MD

Radiology and pathology are so intimately linked–with the former being essentially a field that is dedicated to the interpretations of shadows of the latter–that one would expect to find at least a few dozen comprehensive books about radiologic-pathologic correlations. There are, in fact, only a small handful of them in existence, with Comprehensive Radiographic Pathology (2011) … Read more

Teach Yourself Radiology!

21 July, 201518 September, 2012 by Mark Yoffe, MD

Radiology is by far the most challenging specialty in all of modern medicine in terms of the sheer quantity and breadth of information one needs to acquire in order to become competent at it. You can, however, teach yourself radiology by focusing on the highest yield items: Step 1 Master radiographic anatomy. Radiologists need to know least four … Read more

One of the most important images in all of clinical medicine: anatomy of the PA and lateral chest radiograph

4 October, 201429 August, 2012 by Mark Yoffe, MD

The image below, an artistic superimposition of a drawing of chest cardio-vasculature onto a normal PA and lateral chest radiograph is, in my view, one of the most important images in all of clinical medicine. Source PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Gillian Lieberman on radiographic chest anatomy and from the Medicine Explained blog.

Book Review: Medical Imaging Consultant by William W. Orrison

4 October, 201413 August, 2012 by Mark Yoffe, MD

This niche handbook is based on a straightforward concept. For a given disease, it describes the imaging test of choice. As a bonus, the book also provides information about relative costs, harms, benefits and chest x-ray equivalents and so forth. So if you would like to know, for example, what the test of choice is … Read more

Book Review: Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009) by Stephen G. Davies

4 October, 201410 August, 2012 by Mark Yoffe, MD

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I’ve been reading and annotating this book for close to a month now, and I barely scratched the surface in terms of absorbing the enormous amount of useful information stuffed into this relatively small 500 page handbook. Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009), edited by Stephen G. Davies, is an extremely helpful handbook for interpreting … Read more

Book Review: Visual Guide to Musculoskeletal Tumors: A Clinical – Radiologic – Histologic Approach

4 October, 201421 April, 2012 by Mark Yoffe, MD

Visual Guide to Musculoskeletal Tumors: A Clinical – Radiologic – Histologic Approach(2010) by Felasfa M. Wodajo MD et al. is a superb integration of clinical medicine, gross pathology, histopathology and radiology of musculoskeletal tumors. The pictures are excellent and the amount of information is comprehensive, yet easy to absorb. The book is ideal for radiologists, pathologists, oncologists and orthopedic surgeons. In addition, general practitioners … Read more