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Achilles tendon tear
Achilles tendon tears are the most common ankle tendon injuries, with microtears to full thickness tendon tears of the Achilles tendon and are most commonly seen secondary to sports-related injury, especially squash and basketball.
Epidemiology
There is strong male over-representation presumab...
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Temporal bone destructive lesions (differential)
Destructive lesions of the temporal bone (petrous pyramid, middle ear and antrum) have a relatively broad differential including 1:
lesions affecting petrous pyramid
vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma)
meningioma
glioma
neuroma of trigeminal and facial nerve
chordoma
jugular paragang...
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Medical abbreviations and acronyms (P)
This article contains a list of commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms that start with the letter P and may be encountered in medicine and radiology (please keep the main list and any sublists in alphabetic order).
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R ...
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Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome
Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS), also known as folliculin gene-associated syndrome, is a multi-system disease characterized by:
cutaneous manifestations, typically fibrofolliculomas
multiple lung cysts and spontaneous pneumothoraces
increased risk of renal tumors, typically chromophobe oncocyt...
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Bladder calculus
Bladder calculi, commonly referred to as bladder stones, are urinary stones that are found primarily in the urinary bladder and comprise only 5% of all urinary tract stones. They can be divided into primary, secondary, and migratory stones:
primary: bladder stones form in the absence of other u...
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Acoustic shadowing
Acoustic shadowing (sometimes referred to as posterior acoustic shadowing) is a form of ultrasound artifact. It is characterized by the apparent lack of signal deep to an imaged tissue interface, due to all (or nearly all) of the transmitted sound wave being being reflected back to the transduce...
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Hydrops fetalis
Hydrops fetalis is excessive fluid into the third space in a fetus, which could be due to heart failure, volume overload, decreased oncotic pressure, or increased vascular permeability.
Epidemiology
The estimated incidence is at ~1 in 2000 births, although this can significantly vary according...
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Non-specific interstitial pneumonia
Non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) is the second most common morphological and pathological pattern of interstitial lung diseases after UIP. NSIP is commonly associated with connective tissue disease (CTD) and the underlying diagnosis and management are best decided by a multidisciplinar...
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Double beak sign
The double beak sign refers to the sharp tapering of two adjacent intestinal loops when a closed loop obstruction is caused by an internal hernia. The marked reduction in caliber results in distension of the small bowel loops within the hernia sac, as well as the upstream bowel.
History and ety...
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Closed loop obstruction
Closed loop obstructions are a specific type of bowel obstruction in which two points along the course of the bowel are obstructed, usually but not always the transition points are adjacent at a single location. The closed loop refers to a segment of bowel without proximal or distal outlets for ...
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Longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesion
Longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesions (LESCL), also known as longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM), represent extensive involvement of the spinal cord, with abnormal T2 signal traversing at least three vertebral body segments in length.
Differential diagnosis
They is a bro...
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Pylephlebitis
Pylephlebitis, also known as ascending septic thrombophlebitis, is a thrombotic occlusion of the portal vein or its branches secondary to infection in regions that drain to the portal venous system.
Clinical presentation
Clinical presentation is often vague. Patients may initially present with...
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Winquist and Hansen classification of femoral shaft fractures
The Winquist and Hansen classification of femoral shaft fractures is based on fracture comminution and stability.
Usage
The Winquist system is commonly used along with the AO/OTA classification of femoral diaphyseal fractures 4.
This classification was originally used to assist (along with ot...
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Medical abbreviations and acronyms (C)
This article contains a list of commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms that start with the letter C and may be encountered in medicine and radiology (please keep both the main list and any sublists in alphabetic order).
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q...
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Vertebral body endplate
Vertebral body endplates are anatomically discrete structures that form the interface between the vertebral bodies and the adjacent intervertebral discs. They are constituted centrally by a cartilaginous layer and peripherally by a bone ring apophysis. The cartilaginous layer is related to the n...
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Pseudocoarctation of the aorta
Pseudocoarctation of the aorta is a rare anomaly characterized by kinking or buckling of the descending aorta at the level of the ligamentum arteriosum with no significant pressure gradient across the lesion (<10 mmHg).
Epidemiology
Associations
Rarely reported associations include 3:
congen...
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AO/OTA classification of proximal tibial fractures
The AO/OTA classification is one of the most frequently used systems for classifying proximal tibial fractures or proximal tibial end segment fractures. Like other fractures, they are divided into three groups subject to the severity and complexity of the respective injury 1:
type A: extraartic...
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Osteonecrosis
Osteonecrosis (plural: osteonecroses) is a generic term referring to the ischemic death of the constituents of bone. It has a wide variety of causes and can affect nearly any bone in the body. Most sites of involvement have an eponym associated with osteonecrosis of that area (see list below), a...
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Galeazzi fracture-dislocation
Galeazzi fracture-dislocations consist of a fracture of the distal part of the radius with disruption of the distal radioulnar joint. A Galeazzi-equivalent fracture is a distal radial fracture with a distal ulnar physeal fracture 2.
Epidemiology
Galeazzi fractures are primarily encountered in ...
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