4th Clinical Blog

Clinicals are going well. Gateway Hospital is a very busy place. The hospital is adding on a new addition that is to be open in approximately one year. Here is a case I had recently.

A 52 year old female presented to ED. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a right breast mastectomy in May. Since then her incisional wound, was draining yellowish colored pus. I scanned her using a routine chest protocol to see if she had a chest wall abscess. I scanned the pt with 70 cc of omnipaque 350 with a 40 second delay. I then processed the images into sagittal and coronals. The radiologist stated that she has an 8.0 x 5.5 cm seroma or possible abscess. He also felt that she has mets.

3rd Clinical Blog

It hasn't been quite as busy at clinical, but that is o.k, need a break from the craziness. Recently a 39 year old male presented as an outpatient. He had an ATV accident two days prior and was seen in the emergency room. He had plain x-rays that showed a sternal fracture. He had a round knot to the right of his sternum which is causing him great pain. I placed a radiopaque CT BB marker on the middle of the knot. I scanned him using the routine chest protocol. I used 60 cc of Omnipaque 350 and reformated them in sagittal and coronal images. The radiologist read it as a small ovoid fluid collection measuring 3.3 x 1.1 cm possibly a resolving hematoma or fat necrosis.