What do you see on the following images?
Asthma
Tag: abdominal
Abdominal #12
Patient with right-sided iliac pain:
What is the most likely diagnosis?
Appendicitis
Abdominal #11
Clinical Information
– 53-year-old male
– Left adrenal nodule was incidentally found on a CT scan
– MRI was performed for better characterization
What are the Imaging Findings
– Left adrenal nodule with loss of signal intensity on out-of-phase image
What is the most likely diagnosis?
Adrenal adenoma:
– The most important characteristic feature is the presence of intracellular lipid.
– Chemical shift imaging is the most reliable technique for diagnosing adrenal adenoma: most of them demonstrate a loss of signal intensity on out-of-phase MR images.
Emergency #35
61-year-old female:
– Trauma
– Fracture? What do you see?
Showing the supine AP and lateral view, due to the inability to stand on the right leg.
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Diagnosis: Lipohemarthrosis (fat-blood level) indicating intra-articular #
Comminutive though non-displaced tibia plateau fracture Avulsion fracture proximal fibula (Segond fracture – 100% association with ACL injury)
CT: Schatzker type VI
Schatzker tibia plateau classification
– Schatzker I: wedge-shaped pure cleavage fracture of the lateral tibial plateau, having less than 4 mm of depression or displacement
– Schatzker II: splitting and depression of the lateral tibial plateau; namely, type I fracture with a depressed component
– Schatzker III: pure depression of the lateral tibial plateau; divided into two subtypes:
– Schatzker IIIa: with lateral depression
– Schatzker IIIb: with central depression
– Schatzker IV: medial tibial plateau fracture with a split or depressed component
– Schatzker V: wedge fracture of both lateral and medial tibial plateau
– Schatzker VI: transverse tibial metadiaphyseal fracture, along with any type of tibial plateau fracture (metaphyseal-diaphyseal discontinuity)
Abdominal #10
82-yearold patient:
– Presenting with hematuria
What is the most likely diagnosis?
Enhancing mass in the left renal pelvis, most likely TCC
What is the treatment?
Left total nephroureterectomy and bladder cuff excision
Microscopy result: Transitional Cell Carcinoma of 2,5 cm in the renal pelvis, low grade.
TNM classification Pyelum-Ureter (8th edition UICC): pTa.
Teaching Points
Teaching points
– The vast majority of renal pelvis and ureter tumours are transitional cell carcinoma (> 90%), the remainder of tumours are squamous cell carcinoma (< 10%) and adenocarcinoma (< 1%) Transitional cell carcinoma much more commonly occurs in the bladder than in the renal pelvis or ureter - Synchronous and metachronous tumours are frequent because TCC is caused by toxic exposure through for example cigarette smoking - TCC of the renal pelvis can spread to the kidney and intraluminal seeding to more caudal parts of the ureter and to the bladder is common => always look for other space occupying lesions
– For these reasons, an excretory phase is always useful when a kidney mass is suspected, as TCC’s represent 10 to 15% of renal tumours
– CT scan protocol: non enhanced CT, enhanced CT (70-90 sec), delayed phase (10-15 mins)
Emergency #31
A 55-year-old male. Pain left flank and macroscopic hematuria.
What is your diagnosis?
Diagnosis: Left hydronephrosis and hydroureter with proximal obstructing ureter stone. Fat stranding surrounding left kidney, “blow out” of urine
Abdominal #9 – Flashcard
31-year-old male with:
* Right upper quadrant & epigastric pain
* History of gastric bypass surgery
What aquatic sign is used for the finding in the red circle?
Whirlpool sign
What is shown at the blue arrow?
The transition point from dilated small bowel (with the “small bowel feces sign”) to non-dilated small bowel at the site of internal herniation through a mesenteric defect.
Abdominal #8 – Long case
76-year-old male.
* Presents with acute abdominal pain, enlarged abdomen and no defaecation since a few days.
What do you see?
Abdominal CT scan shows dilated colon loops with a calibre change in the sigmoid. Whirl of mesenterial vessels.
Differential diagnosis is Sigmoid volvulus. This was confirmed on OR.
Sigmoid volvulus is differentiated from a cecal volvulus by its ahaustral wall and the lower end pointing to the pelvis.
Abdominal radiographs will show a large, dilated loop of the colon, often with a few gas-fluid levels. Specific signs include coffee bean sign and absent rectal gas.
CT scan will show large gas-filled loop lacking haustra, forming a closed-loop obstruction. Specific signs include:
– whirl sign: twisting of the mesentery and mesenteric vessels
– bird’s beak sign: if rectal contrast has been administered
– X-marks-the-spot sign: crossing loops of bowel at the site of the transition
– split wall sign: mesenteric fat seen indenting or invaginating the wall of the bowel
Rectal tube insertion for treatment is successful in treating 90% of cases. Occasionally patients suffer from recurrent sigmoid volvulus, for which a surgeon may consider sigmoid colopexy (surgical fixation of the sigmoid colon), or in the surgically unfit, a percutaneous endoscopic colostomy (PEC) might be performed. The mortality rate of sigmoid volvulus is 20-25%. The most serious complication is bowel ischemia, not blow-out perforation as you might expect.
Abdominal #7 – Long case
70-year-old female:
* Presents with acute abdominal pain
* Previous history adnex extirpation and appendectomy
* No raised inflammatory parameters
* No peristalsis
* CT abdomen with IV contrast
What do you see?
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Dilated small bowel loops, radiating distribution (“Bunch of grapes”) with impressive mesenterial venous engorgement and edema in the centre. Ascites perihepatic and in Douglas. Loss of bowel enhancement.
What is the most likely diagnosis?
Closed loop obstruction with bowel ischemia.
Teaching point
Seek for 2 (!) calibre changes next to each other to confirm SBO on basis of Closed loop obstruction.
Peroperative 1 meter of necrotic small bowel was resected.
Abdominal #6 – Long case
56-year-old male:
* Presents with diffuse chronic pain in the abdomen
* Decreased kidney function
A CT is performed:
What do you see?
Diffuse hypodense solid tissue around the pancreas, compression splenic vein with inhomogeneous attenuation of the splenic parenchyma. Soft tissue manchet around the infrarenal abdominal aorta, compressing the aorta to the spine and continuing around the iliac vessels. No separate lymph nodes can be seen. Right hydronephrosis and hydro-ureter, right kidney shows edematous swelling . Both kidneys show heterogeneous cortical enhancement.
What is the most likely diagnosis?
Right hydronephrosis and hydro-urter, pancreatitis and nephritis.
Differential diagnosis includes:
Retroperitoneal fibrosis (Ormond disease) or auto-immune mediated IgG-4 disease
CT-guided retroperitoneal biopsy was performed.
Pathology report: Fibrous tissue with chronic inflammation. Not enough signs of IgG-4 mediated disease.
