Items tagged “summary”
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Brain mass lesion (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Brain mass lesions are a broad collection of pathological processes that result in changes on brain imaging (usually CT or MRI). They are a very disparate group of conditions ranging from infection (abscess) to brain tumors...
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Cerebral edema (summary)
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Cerebral edema describes the collection of additional fluid within the white matter of the brain. It is the brain's response to an insult and may take one of two broad forms: vasogenic (white matter) and cytotoxic (grey and...
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Intracranial mass effect (summary)
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Intracranial mass effect describes what happens around a tumor in the brain. It is important to make the distinction between an abnormality that causes mass effect and compresses adjacent structures, and one that does not. ...
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Abdominal x-ray review: air
Abdominal x-ray review is a key competency for medical students, junior doctors and other allied health professionals. Using ABDO X is a helpful and systematic method for abdominal x-ray review, where A refers to the assessment of the presence and location of air.
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Musculoskeletal x-ray: ABCDE (summary)
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Musculoskeletal x-ray review is a key competency for medical students, junior doctors, and other allied health professionals. Using A, B, C, D, E is a helpful and systematic method for musculoskeletal x-ray review:
A: anat...
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Investigating diplopia (summary)
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Diplopia, also known as double vision, is a visual symptom of seeing two images of a single object.
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Investigating strabismus (summary)
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Strabismus, commonly known as "crossed eyes" or "squint," is a visual disorder characterized by the misalignment of the eyes 1.
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Investigating amblyopia (summary)
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Amblyopia, often referred to as a "lazy eye", is a vision development disorder where an eye fails to achieve normal visual acuity, despite the use of prescription spectacles or contact lenses.
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Hemorrhagic stroke (summary)
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Hemorrhagic stroke is a clinical diagnosis where an acute neurological deficit follows a bleed into the brain parenchyma.
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This is a summary article; read more in our article on intracerebral hemorrhage.
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