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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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Snake eye appearance - residue of compressive myelopathy post surgical decompression

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 20 Jan 2017
95% complete
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Spontaneous acute extradural hematoma of the thoracic spine

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Published 12 Jan 2017
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Giant lumbar schwannoma

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Published 17 Dec 2016
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Facet joint septic arthritis masquerading as endplate osteomyelitis/discitis (spondylodiscitis)

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 07 Dec 2016
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Spinal dural arterio-venous fistula

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Published 30 Oct 2016
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Extruded lumbar disc encircling the thecal sac

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Published 25 Oct 2016
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Lumbar disc extrusion

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Published 26 Sep 2016
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Transient lumbar disc vacuum phenomenon

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Published 19 Oct 2015
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Metastatic disease to the spine: intramedullary and extradural compression

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 26 Jul 2015
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Pannus at the cranio-cervical junction: CT and MRI findings

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Published 17 Jun 2015
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Lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis (sans discitis)

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 10 Jun 2015
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Chronic brachial plexopathy and axillary artery occlusion post shoulder trauma

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 29 May 2015
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Traumatic adrenal hemorrhage

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 27 Apr 2015
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Spondylodiscitis and epidural abscess caused by esophageal perforation due to a metallic stent

  Diagnosis possible
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Published 09 Apr 2015
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Immediate post-op anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

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Published 24 Feb 2015
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Bilateral perched cervical facet joints - hyperflexion injury

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 30 Jan 2015
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Synovial cyst arising from a lumbar pars defect

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 11 Jan 2015
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Discal cyst

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 07 Jan 2015
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Extradural spinal arteriovenous fistula - type 2

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 03 Oct 2014
95% complete
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Accessory occipital-C1 articulation

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 09 Jun 2014
74% complete
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Unfused anterior arch of the atlas (in a child)

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 06 Jun 2014
95% complete
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Primary lumbar epidural abscess

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 07 May 2014
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Metastatic non-adrenal pheochromocytoma (paraganglioma)

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 13 Apr 2014
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Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 25 Mar 2014
77% complete
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Clay-shoveler fracture

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 03 Feb 2014
87% complete
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Huge anterior sacral meningocoele

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 11 Jan 2014
89% complete
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Schmorl node - acute

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 11 Jan 2014
74% complete
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Bilateral cervical locked facets

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 22 Jan 2013
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Jefferson fracture in DISH

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 16 Jan 2013
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Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 04 Jan 2013
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Lipoma of the conus

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 27 Sep 2012
80% complete
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Carrot stick fracture - ankylosing spondylitis

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 22 Sep 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
Nuclear medicine MRI
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Sandwich vertebrae - osteopetrosis

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 03 Jun 2012
68% complete
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Extruded lumbar disc fragment: penetrating the posterior longitudonal ligament

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 10 May 2012
74% complete
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Chronic myeloid leukemia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 21 Feb 2012
77% complete
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Osteopetrosis

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 28 Jan 2012
74% complete
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L5/S1 endplate osteomyelitis/discitis with epidural abscess

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 10 Jan 2012
80% complete
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