Gallstones on Ultrasound

15 Feb 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Okay, this is actually much cooler because the video shows not only gallstones, but very impressive choledocholithiasis (stones in the duct between the liver and bowel) which obstructs the duct causing excruciating pain. Check out the short clip and let me know what you think. Thanks, Ron

The Power of Mammo Tomosynthesis

4 Jan 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

I thought this would be a good vlog to make since tomosynthesis can only truly be appreciated on video and not in print. I’m still trying to figure out a format for these video posts, so please be patient with me. I’m going to target for about 3 minutes each so that they can be […]

Esophagram

31 Dec 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Here is my first VLOG! I will try to keep them short and sweet. Also, remember that these are my subjective interpretations of the exams from years of training. Start throwing out comments so I can try to quickly improve my vlogging techniques. Here you go…

Chest X-ray: Lung Pathology IV

9 Nov 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Okay, here is the last article in the Chest X-ray series for now. We will do a quick and very brief job at covering pulmonary vasculature. As a note, this lecture is largely anecdotal, meaning this is based upon personal experience and makes sense to me but was not learned directly from any single textbook […]

Chest X-ray: Lung Pathology III

21 Oct 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

Atelectasis refers to collapsed lung tissue. Pneumothorax, pronounced New-Moe-Thor-Axe, is an air leak in your chest.

Chest X-ray: Lung Pathology II

19 Aug 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Let’s get through a couple more cases of fundamental pathology on chest X-ray. We touched on pneumonia last time utilizing opacities to help localize lobar anatomy on chest X-ray. Pneumonia can appear different on chest X-ray depending on the pathogen. Bacterial pneumonia often cause the consolidative opacities we discussed in the last article. A viral […]

Chest X-ray: lung pathology I

5 Aug 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

Onward with chest we go! Pathology described for non-medical people is basically anything not “normal” in the body. Sometimes it can be really bad like cancer, it could also be a benign lesion (it’s not normal but it’s not going to kill you either), it could be congenital (a developmental/birth abnormality), and on and on. […]