Main description:

A 36-year-old housewife presents in the emergency department complaining of progressively increasing breathlessness over the last two 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 of 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
Premature neonate with abdominal distension
Young child with painful arm
Acute epigastric pain
Man with atypical chest pain
Young woman with shortness of breath and chest pain
Chest discomfort and dyspnoea
Skateboarder with a painful foot
Left-sided loin pain
Unable to bear weight after a cycling accident
Strange bone appearance after falling
Lower back pain
Vomiting baby boy
Painless haematuria
Sudden onset weakness in an 80-year-old woman
Young man with ankle pain
Painful shoulder
Chest pain after falling
Swelling of the big toe
A young man with progressive dyspnoea on exertion
Pain on deep inspiration
An elbow injury
Pain in the hand following a punching injury
A fall on the hand and pain in the wrist
Shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain
A new arrival with cough and a fever
A seatbelt injury
A device in the pelvis
A cardiac abnormality
A mirror image
A distended and painful abdomen
Bloody sputum and weight loss
A soft fluctuant lump
Abdominal distension and shifting dullness
A painful hand
A retired construction worker with a cough
Distended abdomen and unable to pass gas
Torrential haematemesis
An incidental finding on chest radiograph
A worried nurse in intensive care
Young man with abdominal pain
Skin plaques and achy hands
Teaching sport can be a headache at times
A chesty infant
Difficulty in swallowing
Pregnant woman with vomiting
Infant with a head injury
Abdominal distension in a woman with ovarian cancer
A woman with a breast lump
A rising creatinine
Neck pain after falling
A young man with back pain
A child with an injury
A renal tract abnormality
Shooting leg pain following lifting
A chronic productive cough
General fatigue and weakness
A cervical spine injury following a horse riding accident
Abdominal pain and diarrhoea in a 28-year-old woman
Pain in the left wrist following a fall
A known case of inflammatory bowel disease
A tourist from New Zealand
Spontaneous nose bleeds in a young person
Abdominal weight gain and distension despite dieting
Left mid zone crackles
Traumatic injury to a farmer's foot
An accountant with abdominal pain
Pain in a lady with breast cancer
Headache and visual field defects
A claudicant with worsening leg pain
Normal variant on a chest radiograph
Flank pain and haematuria
Patient with an intractable headache
An unwell patient with a rash
Chest wall swelling and a pleural effusion
Chest wall deformity in a pacemaker patient
Sudden onset back pain in a 72-year-old woman
Constipation and colicky abdominal pain
An ankle injury