Monday, October 1, 2012

**Boring Medical Pictures**

You have been warned. Skip this one if you don't like medical images. Of course, none has information that would identify a patient. Just some interesting pictures. No blood or guts. Mostly x-rays and a few echos actually.

Severe pneumonia:




Brain CT in a child with seizures:

MRI of a person who became suddenly unconscious


Brain CT showing masses/bleeding in someone with multiple focal neurologic signs, we've had several similar cases over the past 2 years. Here multiple brain lesions can be from infection such as toxoplasmosis & tuberculosis, hemorrhagic strokes, or tumors such as metastasis from elsewhere or primary CNS lymphoma:


How NOT TO put the leads on for an ECG:




 Trisomy 21: AV canal plus cleft mitral valve







Rhuematic mitral stenosis:
 


Severe TR:

















Large aortic aneurysm:


Cardiomegaly:



Avariety of different presentations of TB:













 Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma with pericardial effusion and tamponade:


And a ruptured ulcer (note the air under the diaphragm):