ACR Case In Point

Friday, May 24, 2013

A patient presents with unrelated symptoms for the findings.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

A 46-year-old woman reports an enlarging bruise in the left outer quadrant of the breast for the past 4 weeks. She denies a history of trauma.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A 67-year-old man presents with abdominal pain. CT of the abdomen and pelvis with IV contrast is performed.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A 77-year-old-man presents after falling approximately 12 feet from a ladder onto his side. He experienced no loss of consciousness, and no external signs of injury are present.

Monday, May 20, 2013

A 62-year-old man presents with weight loss (10 lbs over the past 2-3 months).

Friday, May 17, 2013

An asymptomatic male newborn presents with an abnormal thyroid screening test.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

A 63-year-old woman presents with the chief complaint of nonproductive cough. Her past medical history was significant for squamous cell carcinoma of the right upper lobe, which was treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy approximately 9 years prior to presentation. She had been lost to follow-up for several years.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

An 86-year-old man presents with a history of a 3 3 cm firm, mobile, palpable lump deep to the right nipple. Patient denies pain or nipple discharge. No prior imaging of the chest has been performed.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Patient presents with history withheld.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Patient presents with history withheld.

Friday, May 10, 2013

A 50-year-old man presents after several months of frontal headache, mucohematic nasal discharge, cough, and loss of weight and without response to antibiotic therapy. Sinonasal and lung CT scans were performed for evaluation.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

A 55-year-old man presents to the emergency department after a fall, complaining of right shoulder pain. After immediate treatment of acute symptoms, the patient followed up with orthopedic surgery three days later. An MRI was obtained for persistent shoulder weakness.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

An infant born at 39 weeks by cesarean section due to cord prolapse presents with abdominal distension and absent bowel sounds after delivery.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

A 16-year-old boy presents with a 1.5-month history of hip pain.

Monday, May 6, 2013

A 54-year-old man presents with painless progressive swelling in the upper chest for 5 months, which started to become painful 5 days prior to presentation.

Friday, May 3, 2013

A 32-year-old man presents with elbow pain.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

A 35-year-old man with no significant past medical history presents with acute-onset flaccid paralysis of the left upper extremity, which was preceded by an episode of subjective fever and vomiting one day prior to admission. Physical exam reveals the following: 2/5 strength in the proximal left upper extremity and 3/5 strength in the distal left upper extremity; flaccid muscle tone; areflexic left upper extremity; and normal sensation in all extremities.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

A 35-year-old woman presents for further characterization of abnormal findings on a prior single-phase abdominal CT.