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.