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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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Pneumothorax due to apical blebs - surgically treated

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 11 Feb 2015
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Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament

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Published 04 Jan 2013
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Superior cerebellar arachnoid cyst

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Published 22 Dec 2012
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Gallstone ileus

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Published 27 Feb 2014
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Angiomyolipoma (large, hemorrhagic)

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Published 18 Aug 2012
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Insufficiency fracture of the sternum

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Published 14 Jun 2015
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Nuclear medicine CT
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Acute hepatitis - starry sky appearance

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Published 25 Jul 2012
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Warthin tumor of parotid

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Published 19 Jul 2012
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Non-union clavicular fracture

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Published 29 Jun 2012
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Traumatic diastasis of the lambdoid suture

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Published 10 Jun 2012
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Obstructed infected horseshoe kidney

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Published 10 Jun 2012
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Persistent stapedial artery

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Published 04 Jan 2015
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Buckle rib fractures

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Published 12 Jan 2012
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Crohn disease

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Published 24 Dec 2014
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Foreign body in right bronchus

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Published 11 Jan 2012
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Pseudo-subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Published 19 Jan 2012
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Bone metastasis - breast cancer

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Published 08 Feb 2012
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Paget disease

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Published 22 Feb 2012
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Bone metastasis to the scapula

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Published 05 Mar 2012
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Fibroid uterus

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 04 Mar 2012
56% complete
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Unilateral sacroiliitis

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 13 Apr 2012
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Metastatic prostate cancer to Pagetoid bone - value of (Ga68)PSMA scan

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 27 Dec 2016
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Bile leak from accessory duct(s) of Luschka post cholecystectomy

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 13 Feb 2017
80% complete
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Insufficiency fracture - calcaneum

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Published 07 Feb 2012
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Chronic submandibular sialolithiasis

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 26 Feb 2012
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Meningioma invading superior sagittal sinus

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 25 Aug 2014
50% complete
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Splenium of corpus callosum acute infarction - posterior pericallosal artery territory

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 28 Jan 2015
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Hemorrhagic cystitis

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 26 Jun 2014
77% complete
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Vagal schwannoma

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Published 01 Jun 2016
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Common extensor tendinopathy (lateral epicondylitis)

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Published 29 Jun 2012
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Jugular paraganglioma

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Published 03 Feb 2015
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Lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis (sans discitis)

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 10 Jun 2015
92% complete
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Loculated acute subdural hematoma masquerading as an extradural

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 27 Feb 2014
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Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome - renal manifestations

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Published 17 Jul 2012
95% complete
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Myositis ossificans

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 18 Apr 2015
77% complete
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Pancreas divisum - recurrent acute pancreatitis

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Published 13 Jan 2014
62% complete
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Ghost meniscus

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 01 Mar 2015
80% complete
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Deep benign fibrous histiocytoma

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 24 Dec 2014
95% complete
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Prominent intraosseous arachnoid granulations (foveolae granulations)

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 10 May 2014
80% complete
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L5/S1 endplate osteomyelitis/discitis with epidural abscess

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 10 Jan 2012
80% complete
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Laparoscopic gastric band - MRI findings

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 18 Dec 2016
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Blow-out fracture right orbital floor

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 29 Aug 2012
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Giant cell arteritis of the distal superficial femoral artery

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 23 Jan 2017
91% complete
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Perforated sigmoid diverticular disease into the retroperitoneum

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 08 Nov 2012
58% complete
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Plantaris tendon tear

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 30 Nov 2018
91% complete
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Fournier gangrene - spontaneous perforation of rectal cancer

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 25 Feb 2012
80% complete
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Urinoma seconday to calyceal rupture - chronic ureteric obstruction

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 12 Dec 2016
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Hydronephrosis due to calculus

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 05 Feb 2012
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Malignant biliary obstruction - Courvoisier sign

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 18 Aug 2012
89% complete
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Chondrosarcoma of the scapula

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 29 Aug 2014
62% complete
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Inflammatory arthritis

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 29 Jan 2012
89% complete
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Amiodarone hepatotoxicity

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 27 Oct 2012
58% complete
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Left atrial appendage closure device

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 10 Aug 2016
95% complete
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Osteoporosis circumscripta

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 01 Jan 2015
71% complete
CT Nuclear medicine
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Pachymeningeal metastasis from breast cancer

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 09 Sep 2012
70% complete
Nuclear medicine MRI CT
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Distended left iliopsoas bursa - causing acute femoral nerve palsy

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 13 Jan 2012
77% complete
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Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS)

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 11 Jan 2012
70% complete
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Progression of stress to full thickness fracture

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Published 15 Jul 2015
86% complete
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Cerebral hemiatrophy

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Published 26 Mar 2015
95% complete
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Torus mandibularis

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Published 12 Aug 2015
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Azygos and hemiazygos veins

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Published 28 May 2017
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Hypovolemia and hypotension - abdominal CT

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Published 08 Apr 2012
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Semimembranosus tendinopathy

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 22 Apr 2012
77% complete
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Jugular foramen schwannoma

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 26 Mar 2014
71% complete
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Renal lymphoma

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 30 Nov 2018
87% complete
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Acute appendicitis (transvaginal ultrasound)

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 19 Jan 2012
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Normal coracoclavicular ligament

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 06 Jan 2015
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Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy following near drowning

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Published 22 Dec 2012
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Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 24 Jun 2012
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Suture granuloma

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 03 Sep 2014
74% 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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Septic arthritis of lumbosacral pseudoarthrosis

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 21 Jun 2012
71% complete
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Penetrating injury to the thigh - importance of the sartorius muscle in protecting the superficial femoral artery

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 26 Aug 2015
95% complete
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Complete pancreatic lipomatosis: cystic fibrosis

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 28 Dec 2014
95% complete
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Choledocholithiasis - hyperdense stones

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 24 Dec 2012
74% complete
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Chronic subdural hematoma - importance of dural membranes

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 09 Oct 2012
95% complete
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Isodense subdural hematoma

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 22 Feb 2012
89% complete
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Sclerotic metastases from carcinoma of the prostate

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 26 Jul 2014
73% complete
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Pituitary mass with a fluid-fluid level

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 01 Feb 2015
95% complete
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Intrahepatic portal vein-hepatic vein fistula

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 30 Mar 2016
89% complete
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Acute appendicitis arising from a malrotated cecum

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 26 Oct 2012
68% complete
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Gallbladder perforation secondary to acute cholecystitis

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 09 Jun 2015
92% complete
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Perforated gallbladder with subcapsular biloma

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 24 Jun 2015
65% complete
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Perforated descending colonic diverticulitis into the anterior abdominal wall

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 08 Jan 2012
68% complete
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Snake eye appearance - residue of compressive myelopathy post surgical decompression

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 20 Jan 2017
95% complete
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Intra-conal orbital metastasis - breast cancer

  Diagnosis almost certain
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Published 25 Nov 2016
80% complete
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Gallbladder carcinoma

  Diagnosis probable
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Published 07 Jan 2015
66% complete
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Clay-shoveler fracture

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 03 Feb 2014
87% complete
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Sesamoiditis - hallux sesamoid

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 16 Feb 2012
77% complete
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Infected lung bulla

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 25 Mar 2015
71% complete
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Emphysematous gastritis due to gastric necrosis/infarction

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 11 Mar 2015
74% complete
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Contrast flow phenomenon in inferior vena cava

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 16 Feb 2016
92% complete
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MRI artifact - tattooed eyeliner

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 09 Mar 2017
92% complete
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Rheumatoid nodules

  Diagnosis certain
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Published 14 Sep 2021
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