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Chris O'Donnell

MB BS, FRANZCR, M.Med, GradDipForMed, FFFPMI (RCPA)

Chris is a specialist necroradiologist and consultant forensic radiologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM), and adjunct senior lecturer, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University.  He also works as a clinical radiologist.  He installed one of the world’s first mortuary-based CT scanners at VIFM in 2005 and was lead radiologist in the Black Saturday bushfire DVI operation in 2009.  He has trained many local and international forensic pathologists and radiologists in post-mortem CT (PMCT).

Chris is convenor of an annual short course in PMCT interpretation for Monash University that has now become a unit of the Monash University Master of Forensic Medicine programme.  He provides expert opinion on forensic matters to the criminal justice system of Victoria and other states of Australia. He is past chair of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging, and is currently overseeing the installation of an MRI scanner into the mortuary at VIFM.

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Pulmonary laceration, contusion and barotrauma - severe car airbag injury

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 07 Dec 2012
95% complete
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Lobar pneumonia - CT findings

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 24 Dec 2014
92% complete
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Spondylodiscitis and epidural abscess caused by esophageal perforation due to a metallic stent

  Diagnosis possible
Chris O'Donnell
Published 09 Apr 2015
65% complete
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Multiple cystic lung metastases - colorectal cancer primary

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 02 Mar 2014
77% complete
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Right middle lobe collapse - mucous plugging

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 27 Aug 2012
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Spontaneous pneumothorax due to ruptured apical bullae

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 12 Oct 2012
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Ruptured thoracic aortic dissection

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 13 Nov 2016
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Intercostal catheter tract through the liver

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 25 Dec 2012
80% complete
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Thoracic endplate osteomyelitis/discitis - false positive FDG PET scan

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 25 Jun 2012
68% complete
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Pneumothorax due to apical blebs - surgically treated

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 11 Feb 2015
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Insufficiency fracture of the sternum

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 14 Jun 2015
95% complete
Nuclear medicine CT
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Buckle rib fractures

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 12 Jan 2012
83% complete
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Foreign body in right bronchus

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 11 Jan 2012
89% complete
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Septic pulmonary infarcts in an IV drug user

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 28 Dec 2015
95% complete
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Infected lung bulla

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 25 Mar 2015
71% complete
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Cavitating pulmonary infarction

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 19 Jul 2017
95% complete
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Metachronous lung cancer post-pneumonectomy

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 02 Feb 2017
80% complete
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Transdiaphragmatic invasion of pleural mesothelioma

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 31 Jan 2017
95% complete
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Bronchial endovalves

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 17 Jul 2016
94% complete
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Intercostal muscle lipoma

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 03 Jul 2016
92% complete
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N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate pulmonary embolism and left adrenal venous infarction

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 20 Jan 2016
95% complete
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Lung cancer on CTPA: extrinsic compression of pulmonary artery

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 28 Dec 2015
95% complete
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Lung cancer - groundglass opacity (GGO) progressing to mass over 7 years

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 01 Sep 2015
80% complete
Nuclear medicine CT
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Left lower lobar pneumonia presenting as flank pain

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 12 Aug 2015
77% complete
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Subpulmonic pleural effusion

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 24 Jun 2015
90% complete
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MitraClips

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 10 Jun 2015
94% complete
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Azygos lobe in a transplanted lung

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 11 Jan 2015
82% complete
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Percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve replacement

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 16 Dec 2014
94% complete
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Focal diaphragmatic hernia containing liver

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 18 Nov 2014
95% complete
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Insertable cardiac monitor

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 18 Aug 2014
85% complete
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Aspirated food bolus obstruction of left main bronchus

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 24 May 2014
92% complete
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Lung cancer with superior vena caval invasion

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 07 May 2014
92% complete
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Mucus plugging

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 13 Apr 2014
65% complete
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Pneumomediastinum post amphetamine smoking

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 30 Mar 2014
74% complete
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Kerley B lines on CT

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 27 Feb 2014
92% complete
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Portacath migration into the pleural space

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 12 Feb 2014
80% complete
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Metastatic small cell lung cancer to bone - false negative CT lumbar spine

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 29 Dec 2013
89% complete
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Ipsilateral pleural metastases - breast cancer

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 11 Mar 2013
68% complete
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Amplatz septal occluder for secundum ASD

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 24 Aug 2012
73% complete
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Severe pulmonary arterial hypertension

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 16 Jan 2013
77% complete
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White out left hemithorax: occlusion left main bronchus

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 09 Dec 2012
75% complete
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Esophageal cancer infiltration into right main bronchus

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 29 Oct 2012
53% complete
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White-out right hemithorax - malignant pleural effusion

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 24 Oct 2012
68% complete
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Mixed pneumoconiosis - silicosis with PMF and asbestosis

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 06 Oct 2012
77% complete
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Heavily calcified breast prostheses

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 04 Sep 2012
75% complete
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Adrenal metastasis from small cell lung cancer

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 09 Aug 2012
73% complete
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Tumor thrombus - right inferior pulmonary vein

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 07 Aug 2012
77% complete
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Pericarditis

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 23 Jul 2012
77% complete
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Carcinoma of the lung

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 27 May 2012
59% complete
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Chronic pulmonary embolism

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 27 May 2012
92% complete
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Bronchial carcinoid tumor

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 28 Apr 2012
55% complete
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Ruptured silicon breast prostheses - intra and extra-capsular

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 22 Feb 2012
77% complete
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False positive pulmonary embolus - CTPA

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 12 Feb 2012
92% complete
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Long subscapular nerve palsy - post axillary nodal clearance producing latissmus dorsi atrophy

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 25 Jan 2012
53% complete
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Marfan syndrome - ascending aorta aneurysm

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 19 Jan 2012
79% complete
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Off-gassing on postmortem CT scanning of a scuba death

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 12 Jan 2012
75% complete
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Spontaneous Stanford type B dissection of the thoracic aorta masquerading as pulmonary embolism

Chris O'Donnell
Published 09 Jan 2012
65% complete
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