A 36 year-old housewife presents in the Emergency Department complaining of progressively increasing breathlessness over the last 2 weeks, accompanied by wheeze and a productive cough. You are the medic on duty…

100 Cases in Radiology presents 100 radiological anomalies commonly seen by medical students and junior doctors on the ward, in outpatient clinics or in the emergency department. A succinct summary of the patient's history, examination and initial investigations, including imaging photographs, is followed by questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, with further illustration where appropriate, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and junior doctors.

Making clinical decisions and choosing the best course of action is one of the most challenging and difficult parts of training to become a doctor. These cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognize important radiological signs, and the medical and/or surgical conditions to which these relate, and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.

Contents

Deteriorating shortness of breath in a smoker

The breathless asthmatic

An icy fall

Difficulty swallowing

A mechanical fall in an elderly patient

Jaundice following cholecystectomy

Heartburn, epigastric pain and a cough

Lines, catheters and tubes on a radiograph

Weakness and slurring while out for a drink

Back pain relieved only by aspirin

A persistent cough in an ex-smoker

A retired schoolmaster with progressive breathlessness

Numb right arm

Right upper abdominal upper pain

Infant with clicking hips

Painful wrist after falling

Constipation in a woman with known ovarian tumour

Thirty-year-old man with headache

Persistent cough

Chest pain and dyspnoea

Young man with neck swelling

Collapse and possible seizure