Images Eleanor Cook and Tina Cullen A 33 year old presents to the Emergency Department with RUQ pain. A point of care ultrasound is performed to exclude a biliary cause for her pain. This is the transverse view of the GB. The GB could be easily missed in this view because it is Read more about Choledocholithiasis[…]
Images by Genevieve Carbonatto A patient presents with 4 days of abdominal pain and diarrhea. He has suprapubic tenderness. A point of care ultrasound confirms a colitis from his descending colon including his sigmoid colon. Ultrasound features consistent with this Thickened bowel wall Hypoechoic submucosa.
Images by Genevieve Carbonatto 72 year old woman with a 4 day history of RIF pain. Ultrasound shows what was directly under the point of tenderness. A point of care ultrasound shows a complex structure tender structure in the RIF. This is a possible inflamed appendix, possible inflamed ileum. The AP diameter of the appendix Read more about RIF pain[…]
Images by Genevieve Carbonatto This 11 year old presented with severe abdominal pain. On examination she had a distended tender abdomen. She was initially thought to be in urinary retention. She was catheterised but had very little urine in her bladder. Her ultrasound shows a distended uterus from haematometrocolpus due to an imperforate hymen. The Read more about Imperforate hymen : Haematometrocolpus[…]
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Images by Matthew Oliver 3 days of cough and sore throat. 2 days of headache, fever and anorexia. Chest Xray shows right upper lobe pneumonia Ultrasound shows lung consolidation. the consolidated area looks like solid tissue. The bright hyperechoic areas are lung bronchograms. B lines due to interstitial fluid can be seen adjacent to the Read more about Lobar pneumonia[…]
Images by Genevieve Carbonatto This young man presented with a one week history of cough and a 2 day history of a very localised chest pain. His chest Xray films were unremarkable His ultrasound was interesting Just at the point of his pain, there is a break in the pleural line suggesting Read more about Normal chest Xray small area of consolidation and small pleural effusion[…]
Images by James Dent Retinal detachment
Image Genevieve Carbonatto Pleurodesis will appear on ultrasound exactly like a pneumothorax as there will be absence of lung sliding
Image Genevieve Carbonatto Widespread B lines originating from the pleural line Acute pulmonary oedema The causes of an interstitial syndrome includes, pulmonary edema of various causes, interstitial pneumonia or pneumonitis and diffuse parenchymal lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis) The clinical scenario will help differentiate between them. There are subtle sonographic differences however. B lines are seen in Read more about Pulmonary oedema[…]