Percutaneous femoral artery puncture

Hello.
Today I wanna write about femoral artery puncture.
This is basic for interventional radiologists, but it is important for medical students and residents refresh their knowledge.
Here you are some links.
Good study and punctures!!

Gio

Endovascular Today

Cath Lab Digest

Stanford School of Medicine

RadTapTap

Today I'm going to write about an educational game for radiologists and medical students.
This game lets you learn radiological anatomy by playing.
The core idea is good and it deserves a try.
Have a fun and good study.

Gio

App Store

Download.com

App Annie

Radiology_Tutor app

Mobile apps are becoming so important in our daily life and especially in medical practice I believe we are going very soon into a "medicine of apps".
On the stores, there are an huge amount of apps, useful or not.
So here you are one of mine prefered app: Radiology Tutor.
It is a radiological calculator app with several calculators freely avaible (oncology, adrenal wash-out..).
In a busy working day, if you are reporting a total body CT exam and need to stage for example a lung cancer with this app it is easy to do if you don't have an oncology book with you.
If worst a try and you will not delete it from your mobile phone.

Gio

AppStore

GooglePlay

Windows Phone Marketplace

Chest Xray Tutorials

Chest Xray exam is one of the most important and performed imaging test in an hospital workflow.

A radiologist must have a good knowledge of chest xray anatomy, normal findings and signs of diseases detectable with this exam.

So we all need a refresh on chest xray and here you are some of the best learning tutorials I found on internet.

They are all free, well done and easy to access.

So have a good week of study and work.

If you know another tutorials, please let me know and send me links.

Thanks.

Gio

Radiology Masterclass

University of Virginia

Radiology Assistant

Medscape

ChestXray.com

Adrenal Characterization

Today I wanna write you about an interesting website chestxray.com mainly focused on chest imaging.
Calculator section is a rich part of the site, with important and useful tools that you can need in your clinical practice and generally you don't know where you can find specially when you are in hurry.
Adrenal adenomas are incidental lesions, which can be evaluated with CT exam.
CT contast medium wash-out is the best way to diagnose adrenal adenoma and this calculator help you to study an adrenal lesion.
Very helpful.

Gio

RadiologyAssistant

Phillip Cheng

Varicocele Embolization

Ecco alcuni link utili sul trattamento endovascolare di embolizzazione del varicocele.

Gio

Here some useful links about interventional radiology treatment of varicocele.

Gio

SIR

Penn Medicine

Varicoceles.com

RadiologyInfo

Coronary Anatomy

Buona domenica,

un'interessante e  ben realizzata lezione sull'anatomia coronarica.
Buono studio.

Gio


Good sunday,

here you are an interesting and high level lesson on coronary's anatomy.
Good study.

Gio

Atelectasis

Il post di oggi riguarda l'atelettasia polmonare.
Si tratta di una riduzione del volume polmonare generalmente associata ad un aumento della densità del parenchima coinvolto (che risulterà radio-opaco).
Inserisco alcuni link utili.
Buono studio.

Gio


Today's post covers the pulmonary atelectasis. 
It's a lung volume reduction generally associated with an increase in the density of parenchyma involved (that will be radio-opaque). 
I post some useful links. 
Good study. 

Gio


Radiopaedia

LearningRadiology

University of Virginia

Center for Interactive digital education in radiology

Pulmonary consolidation

La consolidazione polmonare indica la sostituzione dell'aria alveolare da parte di materiale patologico (cellule o fluido), che radiologicamente risulta radiopaco.
Cause:

-edema
-flogosi
-cellule neoplastiche

Può essere unilaterale (lobare o più estesa) o bilaterale; in quest'ultimo caso può rappresentare un quadro di insufficienza respiratoria e richiedere il ricovero in terapia intensiva.
Di fronte ad una consolidazione parenchimale allo studio radiologico, dirimente è la clinica.
Segno radiologico importante è il BRONCOGRAMMA AEREO: la visualizzazione delle strutture bronchiali radiotrasparenti nel contesto di una consolidazione parenchimale.

Gio

The pulmonary consolidation indicates alveolar air's replacement by pathological material (cells or fluid), which is radiopaque radiologically. 
Causes: 

-edema 
-inflammation 
-neoplastic cells 

It can be unilateral (lobar or larger) or bilaterally, in which case it can be indicative of respiratory failure and require admission to intensive care. 
In front of a parenchymal consolidation in the radiological exam, the clinic is the key point. 
Important radiological sign is the air bronchogram: the visualization of radiolucent bronchial structures in the context of a parenchymal consolidation.

Gio