Sunday, June 10, 2007

What is wrong with this picture?



I love this scan - it is from the site Radiology Image of the Day which I have linked to the right.

See if you can pick what is wrong with the picture before you go to the original site (which I love!). Even first-years should pick this one!
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9 comments:

  1. PollyJune 10, 2007 at 5:35 PM

    I was going to guess a marble.. :P

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  2. The GirlJune 10, 2007 at 5:44 PM

    I don't think the glass on a marble would be as radio-opaque as that.

    I was surprised that the vitamin-k tablet would be so dense on the scan, but there you go.

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  3. AMiBJune 10, 2007 at 6:29 PM

    see, this is always why i hate CTs...i looked at the chest, hilums, lung fields, etc, but COMPLETELY missed the large, radio-opacity right smak dab in the middle of the trachea...UGH!

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  4. XEJune 11, 2007 at 12:10 AM

    I'm with amib. I didn't even see it because I was so focused on the lungs.

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  5. TerraJune 11, 2007 at 11:01 AM

    Woo! I picked it (and I don't have any training on what a normal CT looks like!!)... Not that I could have said what it was - just that it didn't seem normal.

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  6. Milk and Two SugarsJune 11, 2007 at 8:58 PM

    Aaaaaa!!!

    That was my first reaction. But I react like that to about every 20th x-ray/CT/angiography I see.

    Is it really a vit K tablet?

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  7. The GirlJune 13, 2007 at 5:12 PM

    According to the site, it is a "Slow K" - potassium supplement.

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  8. AdrianJune 18, 2007 at 9:33 PM

    haha, this scan is gold. I noticed it pretty much straight away because, although there is a lot of dense tissue in that slice, the perfectly round nature of the pill gave it away. Love them...

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  9. The Little MedicJune 25, 2007 at 6:34 AM

    I got it, but only after I went away and came back. For some reason, the first time I looked I swear it wasn't there!

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