Neuroradiology #35

What do you see in the following images?

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Polymicrogyria
Bilateral cortical thickening with numerous small gyri with signal characteristics similar to normal grey matter.
Dilated bilateral perivascular spaces in the subjacent white matter.

Emergency #30

A 6-year-old child. Cough since months. DD, allergy, asthma

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Diagnosis: Pneumonia lingula (consolidation obscuring left heart border but not left hemidiaphragm)

What is the most probably causing organism at this age?

Mycoplasma (bacterial) pneumonia

Musculoskeletal #2 – Flashcard

13-year-old girl with knee pain for 2 months.

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Periphyseal (both knees) hyperintensity on sagittal fat suppressed T2 Weighted image (a) and Proton Density Weighted image (b) and hypointensity on sagittal T1Weighted image (c) (arrows).

FOPE: Focal periphyseal edema
– Mostly around the knees
– Both genders can be affected during skeletal maturation
– Painful manifestation of physiologic physeal fusion