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Lecture 18 - Imaging Flashcards

1
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How do radiographs create an image (basic)?

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X ray beam passed towards a plate detector
Structures that absorb the x-rays appear more white

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What are the advantages of radiographs?

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Quick
Cheap
Readily available
Low ionising radiation dose

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What are the downsides to radiographs?

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Low contrast
2D images

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How does Ultrasound create images (basic)?

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Handheld prob using sound waves?

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What are the advantages of using ultrasound?

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Cheap
No ionising radiation

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What are the disadvantages of ultrasound?

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Operator dependant (need to be skilled)
Limited by bone (too dense to pass through)

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7
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What is ultrasound useful for imaging?

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Thyroid
Superficial soft tissue

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What are the advantages of CT?

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Quick
Readily available

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9
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What is the disadvantage of CT?

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High does radiation

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10
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What are the advantages of MRI?

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The best contrast
No ionising radiation

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What are the disadvantages of MRI?

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Slow
Expensive
Limited availability
Claustrophobic
Cant be done if have metal in body

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12
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What are radiographs typically used for in Head N Neck?

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Minor skull trauma (when cant do CT)

Cervical spine trauma

Foreign bodies in neck

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13
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What are ultrasounds typically used for?

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Thyroid evaluation
Superficial head and neck masses
Superficial infection
Carotid Doppler

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14
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What are CTs typically used for for Head N Neck?

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Trauma
Acute focal neurological symptoms
Malignancy
Infection (retropharyngeal infections can go to mediastinum)
Angiographic imaging of arteries and veins

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15
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When may you want to do a CT for an adult?

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Any sign of basal skull fracture
Focal neurological deficit
Multiple vomiting episodes

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16
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What are MRIs typically used for?

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Imaging brain since it’s good and seeing difference between white and grey matter (tumour evaluation, epilepsy)

Cervical spinal cord trauma
Head and neck tumours

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17
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What are the 3 planes of sectioning?

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Coronal (wearing a crown)
Transverse(slice like a cucumber)
Sagittal (split down middle)

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18
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What are the normal lines between the skull bones called?

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Sutures

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19
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What is it called when bone is eroded by soft tissue?

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Lyric soft tissue

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20
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Go to the last slide and label skull 1:

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1 = frontal bone
2 = sphenoid bones
3 = frontal sinus
4 = ethmoid bone
5 = nasal bone
6 = maxilla
7. = cribiform plate
8 = parietal bone
9 = temporal bone
10 = foramen magnum
11 = occipital bone

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21
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Go to the last slide and label sutures image 2:

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1 = coronal suture
2 = lambdoid suture
3 = squamous suture

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22
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Go to the last slide and label image 3:

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1 = coronal suture
2 = Sagittal suture
3 = lambdoid suture

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23
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Go to the last slide image 4 and label the yellow and red strucutres:

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Yellow = coronal sutures
Red = lambdoid sutures

24
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Look at slide 24 for a normal facial radiograph

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25
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What is an orthopantomogram used to view?

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Teeth problems
Mandibular problems

26
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Look at slide 30, what is the abnormality?

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No air in maxillary sinus

27
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What is the abnormality on slide 31

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Displaced right mandiiibular fracture

Non displaced left side mandibular fracture

28
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Slide 32

What is the abnormality?

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Right sided maxillary flor fracture
Soft tissue problems

29
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Slide 33

Abnormality?

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Left sided eyebrow sign (air around the orbit)

30
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Slide 35

Abnormality?

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Right sided mastoid fracture

Left sided fracture around carotid canal

31
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Go to the last slide and label image 5 (vertebrae):

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1 = pedicle
2 = vertebral body
3 = transverse foreman
4 = lamina
5 = spinous process
6 = superior articular facet

32
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What vertebral body needs to be visible in the C spine for it to be considered a good image?

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C7

33
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Go to slide 41, what ligaments are the lines indicating?

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Yellow = anterior spinal
Green = posterior spinal ligament
Blue = ligamentum flavum

34
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What needs to be either side of the odontioid peg in a normal cervical radiograph?

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Lateral masses

35
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Look at slide 48:

What is the abnormality?

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Fracture of C2

36
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Go to the last slide, what is the image of?

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Jefferson fracture

37
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What is a Jefferson fracture?

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Fracture of C1due to Axial loading

38
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What are 3 spinal columns?

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Anterior
Middle
Posterior

39
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What is a limitation of Radiographs?

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Can’t see ligamentous injuries

40
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Look at the last slide at image 7, label the lobes of the brain:

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1 = frontal lobe
2 = temporal lobe
3 = parietal lobe
4 = occipital lobe

41
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What are the ventricles filled with in the subarachnoid space?

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CSF

42
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Look at the last at image 8:

Label the sections of the brain MRI:

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Yellow = frontal
Green = temporal
Red = parietal
Blue = occipital
Purple = ventricle

43
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What appearance does an Extradural haemorrhage produce on a CT?

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Lentiform appearance

44
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What causes an Extradural haemorrhage?

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Middle meningeal artery rupture under pterion

45
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How does a patient with an extra dural haemorrhage present?

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Trauma
Loss of consciousness
Lucid interval where they’re ok
Then rapid deterioration

46
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How does a subdural haemorrhage appear on CT?

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Banana shaped/cresent shape

47
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What causes a subdural haemorrhage?

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Bridging veins break due to trauma causing bleeding into space between dura and arachnoid mater

48
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What type of blood makes up a subdural haemorrhage?

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Venous blood

49
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How do we manage a subdural haemorrhage?

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Anticoagulation (warfarin)
If small conservatively
Neurosurgical emergency

50
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What is the pathology on the last slide CT 9:

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Sub arachnoid haemorrhage

51
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What are the normal causes of a subarachnoid haemorrhage?

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Aneurysm/ruptureed vessel
Trauma

52
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How do you treat a subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by trauma?

A

Correct Anticoagulatio
Further CT
Neurosurgical

53
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What type of blood vessel is ruptured in a subarachnoid rupture / aneurysm?

A

Arterial blood

54
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How does a subarachnoid haemorrhage present when caused by a rupture?

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Central hyper density in subarachnoid space
Thunderclap headache

55
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How are is a subarachnoid haemorrhage managed?

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Neurosurgery

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