CT image contest-Facebook Site

Sumer's Radiology Site gets featured in the Facebook page of the

International CT Image Contest

website -http://www.siemens.com/image-contest

Low Dose CT Image Contest-Siemens

Reducing the radiation dose while maintaining excellent image quality is central in CT these days. As such, Siemens has initiated the first International CT Image Contest where you are invited to sendin your images. Compete with colleagues from all over the world to see who has achieved the best image quality at the lowest possible radiation dose! A highly prominent international jury will be evaluating the submitted entries.

Visit the International CT Image Contest website -
http://www.siemens.com/image-contest

Who wants to be an expert Radiologist?

This is nice quiz by medicexchange.com. All you have to do is answer a set of fifteen questions with interesting features like 'ask-peers' and '50-50' lifelines. Simply play and if you can reach the top position in the Hall of Fame and manage to stay there till the end of the month, you'll receive an iPod touch.

Available here-

Who wants to be an expert Radiologist?

PS-I played this yesterday and hurray got all correct!!

Radiology Quiz-What is the Diagnosis?

This patient presented with complaints of vomitting and abdominal pain. Can you make the diagnosis on the basis of scout film and CT section.

Post your answers in the comments section. Case reported by emergency team of Teleradiology Providers

Answer--
Intussusception

Winner-
Dr. Eytan RAZ

Radiology Quiz-What is the Diagnosis?

On popular demand here is the Radiology quiz. What is the diagnosis? this is a T2 weighted axial MRI image. Kindly submit your answers in the comments section. Correct answer will be put up here within this week.

DIAGNOSIS-

Diastematomyelia

Discussion: The congenital entity of diastematomyelia results from a splitting of the notochord during early development; the etiology of this phenomenon is, at present, uncertain. The result is a complete, longitudinal division of the spinal cord over a variable distance. The abnormality is most frequently encountered in the upper lumbar region, but may occur anywhere else along the length of the spinal cord. Division of the cord is often asymmetrical (i.e.), parasagittal); however, each hemicord possesses it's corresponding anterior and posterior horn cells and ipselateral nerve roots. Two subdivisions are recognized, and are described as follows:
Type I (50%): split cord, surrounded by a normal undivided arachnoid-dural sleeve; no septum (diastem)
Type II (50%): split cord; however, each hemicord is invested by a separate dural sleeve, divided by a fibrous, cartilaginous or bony septum (diastem).
Associated clinical/radiographic findings:
Vertebral anomalies associated with defective neural tubeclosure, resulting in the gamut of spinal dysraphisms.
Tethered cord, thickend filum terminale )75%)
Meningomyelocele
Intra/extradural lipoma
Dermal sinus

Case submitted by Dr MGK Murthy Senior Consultant Teleradiology Providers

A case Lingual Thyroid

The radfiles blog this week has a very typical CT images of a case of lingual thyroid. A typical spotter for radiology residents.

Here is the case- Lingual Thyroid