Derek Smith ◉

MBChB FRCR PGCert (Clin Ed)

Dr Derek Smith is a consultant neuroradiologist in Edinburgh, Scotland.

His involvement with Radiopaedia started from medical school, with imaging teaching making a substantial part of his full time medical education fellowship in 2019-20. His clinical interests include trauma, neuroradiology and head and neck imaging.

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TRAINING

University of Edinburgh Medical School 2007-2012
Foundation Trainee, South East Scotland 2012-2014
Clinical Development Fellow, NHS Lothian 2014-2015
Clinical Teaching Fellow, NHS Lothian 2019-2020
Specialty Registrar, Clinical Radiology, SE Scotland, 2015-2021

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RADIOPAEDIA CONTENT

FRCR 2B Materials Radiopaedia Rapids // Radiopaedia Vivas
Radiopaedia 2020 Neck Infections (https://radiopaedia.org/courses/neck-infections)
Radiopaedia 2021 Epilepsy in adults: approach to MRI brain interpretation // Neck Emergencies
Radiopaedia 2022 Introduction to cervical spine MRI // Spinal tumours in adults // Head and Neck Workshop

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Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (PML-IRIS)

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (sarcoidosis associated PML)

Posterior fossa subdural empyemas from mastoiditis

Oropharyngeal SCC (T2 N1 M0)

Vertebral metastases (lung primary)

Basilar invagination

Cervical disc protrusion with cord compression

Normal cervical spine MRI

Sternoclavicular abscess and osteomyelitis

Diffuse astrocytoma, IDH-mutant

Radiation induced meningiomas and cavernous malformations

Hepatic hyperammonemic encephalopathy

Hypoglycemic encephalopathy

Lateral tongue squamous cell carcinoma

Normal neck (MRI)

Normal neck (MRI)

Osteopoikilosis

Inverted papilloma - sinonasal

Obstructing isodense colloid cyst

Tuberculosis - pleural, pulmonary, discitis

Subdural hemorrhages on sinus CT

Normal MRI epilepsy protocol

C6 compression fracture with posterior spinal fractures and cord contusion

C6/C7 fracture dislocation with cord hematoma

Middle cranial fossa meningoencephalocele

Glioblastoma IDH wild-type

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

Prostate metastasis to sphenoid bone and orbit

Periorbital sarcoidosis

Orbital cellulitis complicated by superior ophthalmic vein and cavernous sinus thrombosis

Neurocysticercosis

Ankylosing spondylitis

Recurrent L5/S1 disc bulge with transitional lumbosacral anatomy

Normal spine MRI

L5/S1 disc extrusion

Bilateral L4 pars defects

Spinal epidural abscess

L4/5 disc subarticular extrusion

L3/4 disc migration

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

Left L5/S1 disc extrusion

Glioblastoma

Epidural abscess complicating frontal sinusitis

Subdural empyema and frontal abscess complicating frontal sinusitis

Patellar instability with medial patellofemoral ligament tear

Spinal epidural lipomatosis

Mesial temporal sclerosis with incomplete inversion

Mesial temporal sclerosis

Glioblastoma (IDH wild-type)

Focal cortical dysplasia (type I)

Congenital CMV infection

CNS manifestations of NF1 - optic pathway glioma, neurofibroma, dural ectasia

Normal MRI head - 3-years-old

Post-prostate biopsy: hemorrhage exclusion

Cholelithiasis with biliary dilatation

Acute cholecystitis with gallbladder neck calculus

Multiple sclerosis with Lhermitte-Duclos disease

Cervical myelopathy

Posterior circulation infarct

L5/S1 disc protrusion

Primary CNS lymphoma (cerebellar)

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