SCALP
- Skin
- Dense Connective Tissue
- Epicranial Aponeurosis
- Loose Areolar Connective Tissue
- Periosteum.
Categories
Scalp: Layers
Categories
Scalp: Nerve supply
GLASS
- Greater occipital/ Greater auricular nerve
- Lesser occipital nerve
- Auriculotemporal nerve
- Supratrochlear nerve
- Supraorbital nerve
Categories
Axillary artery: Branches
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- Superior thoracic artery
- Thoracoacromial artery
- Lateral thoracic artery
- Subscapular artery
- Anterior humeral circumflex artery
- Posterior humeral circumflex artery
Categories
Upper lobe shadowing: causes
BREASTS
- Beryllium
- Radiation
- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Sarcoidosis
- TB
- Silicosis
Categories
T2 vs T1 MRI scan
“WW 2” (World War II)
Water is White in a T2 scan.
Conversely, a T1 scan shows fat as being whiter.
Categories
Osteoarthritis: x-ray signs
LOSS
- Loss of joint space
- Osteopyhtes
- Subcondral sclerosis
- Subchondral cysts
Categories
Elbow ossification centers in sequence
CRITOE
- Capitellum
- Radial head
- Internal epicondyle
- Trochlea
- Olecranon
- External epicondyle
- 1 year
- 3 years
- 5 years
- 7 years
- 9 years
- 11 years
“If you see HOLES on chest X-ray, they are WEIRD“
- Wegener’s granulomatosis (now formally known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis)
- Embolic (pulmonary, septic)
- Infection (anaerobes, pneumocystis, TB)
- Rheumatoid (necrobiotic nodules)
- Developmental cysts (sequestration)
- Histiocytosis
- Oncological
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- Environmental, occupational
- Sarcoid
Alternatively: L=Left atrial myxoma
Categories
Chest X-ray: analysis
Preliminary is ABCDEF
- AP or PA
- Body position
- Confirm name
- Date
- Exposure
- Films for comparison
Analysis is ABCDEF
- Airways (hilar adenopathy or enlargement)
- Breast shadows/ Bones (rib fractures, lytic bone lesions)
- Cardiac silhoutte (cardiac enlargement)/ Costophrenic angles (pleural effusions)
- Diaphragm (evidence of free air)/ Digestive tract
- Edges (apices for fibrosis, pneumothorax, pleural thickening or plaques)/ Extrathoracic tissues
- Fields (evidence of alveolar filling)/ Failure (alveolar air space disease with prominent vascularity with or without pleural effusions)
Categories
Chest x-ray: checklist to examine
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- Patient details
- Film details
- Objects (e.g. lines, electrodes)
- Rotation
- Penetration
- Expansion
- Vessels
- Hila
- Costophrenic angles
- Mediastinum
- Cardiothoracic Ratio
- Soft tissues and bones
- Air (diaphragm, pneumothorax, subcut. emphysema)
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