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Retained Surgical Sponge
Gossypiboma is the name given to a retained surgical sponge, pad, or towel (gossypium (Latin), cotton; + plboma (Swahili), place of concealment). Retained foreign bodies can cause either an acute...
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Sickle Cell Anaemia
Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive genetic disease leading to production of a defective form of haemoglobin, haemoglobin S (HbS) causing sickle shaped erythrocytes. The major consequence of...
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Retrocaecal Appendicitis
This 36 year-old male presented with right loin-to-groin pain, and was thought to have renal colic despite absence of blood in the urine. A CT KUB was performed, and the sagittal image above shows the...
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Gallbladder Adenomyomatosis
Adenomyomatosis is a benign hyperplastic condition of the gallbladder consisting of hyperplasia of the gallbladder wall with hernation of mucosal epithelium into the wall. The latter results in...
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Diverticulosis
This patient had a recent barium enema which resulted in barium impaction in numerous colonic diverticula. Barium impacted in diverticula often persist for weeks or months, and sometimes for years....
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Appendicitis in Pregnancy
Appendicitis during pregnancy is a relatively rare condition, though it is thought that the incidence is similar to that of the non-gravid population at approximately 1 in 1500 pregnancies. The...
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Duodenal Diverticulum Draining Ampulla of Vater
This patient had biliary obstruction from a Klatskin tumour. On inserting a biliary drain from the left hepatic ductal system into the duodenum, the common bile duct was noted to drain into a duodenal...
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Choledocholithiasis
This patient has had a cholecystectomy but presents with recurrence of biliary symptoms. A CT cholangiogram was performed after intravenous administration of meglumine iotroxate (Biliscopin)....
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Carcinoma of the Pancreatic Head
This abdominal ultrasound shows the characteristic appearance of a pancreatic head carcinoma – a hypoechoic mass with irregular margins. Deep to the mass a biliary stent can be seen within the common...
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Liver Haemangioma
This multiphase CT shows the typical imaging features of liver haemangioma. There is peripheral nodular enhancement in the arterial phase which gradually fills in in later phases (portal venous and...
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