Radiology - Conditions
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Internet Resources relating to the radiological investigation of orthopaedic conditions
[OCOSH Code: D011871 118247008 INV_RAD_CON]
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Chance fracture CHORUS
Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/00579.html
horizontal fracture thru vertebra (body, pedicles, laminae)
* sudden deceleration with lap-only seatbelt
* usually L1 or L2
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chauffeur's fracture CHORUS
Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/01218.html
radial styloid fracture due to direct blow
* (so named because of trauma from hand-cranked starters)
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cherubism CHORUS
Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/00073.html
* hereditary form of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
* involves mandible and maxillae
* may regress in early adulthood
* autosomal dominant
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chisel fracture CHORUS
Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/01219.html
incomplete fracture of radial head (intra-articular) d/t fall on outstretched hand
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chondral fracture
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/451-4199.html
Clinical presentation:
27 year old male with pain and swelling of the left knee after falling and hitting his knee.
The lateral view shows distension of the supra-patellar burse from a joint effusion, but no obvious fracture. On closer inspection, a short, fine linear density is seen in the AP. view. This...
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chondroblastoma CHORUS
Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/00077.html
* age: 10 - 30
* occur in young kids before physeal plate closes
* epiphysis
* XR: lucency in epiphysis, speckled calcifications
* 25-50% calcify
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chondrocalcinosis CHORUS
Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/00078.html
"the three C's"
1. Cation disease * hyperparathyroidism (Ca++) * hemochromatosis (Fe++) * Wilson disease (Cu++)
2. Crystal deposition...
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chondroma rib
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/471-3114.html
Clinical presentation:
Incidental finding on a pre-op. chest in a middle aged male.
The heart and lungs appear grossly normal, except for a sharly demarcated amorphous calcific density that is projected over the right lung. The density cannot be localised in one view, but it is projected over the costo-chondral junction at...
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chondromyxoid fibroma
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/415-3112.html
Clinical presentation:
No detail, presumably pain in right shoulder.
There is a well defined lytic eccentric lesion in the metaphysis and proximal portion of the diaphysis of the right humerus. This has a well-defined zone of transition with normal bone and has the appearance of a line of demarcating sclerosis. The cortex...
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chondromyxoid fibroma CHORUS
Location: http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/doc/00592.html
* benign metaphyseal lesion
* young adults (60% <30 y/o)
* lytic lesion with well-defined margin
o diaphysis of long bone
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Chondrosarcoma
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/415-3211.html
Clinical presentation:
History of pain in the right shoulder in 30 year old.
There is a dense expansion of the bone on the medial side of the upper metaphysis of the right humerus with a base of thickened cortex. The lesion is also within the bone extending towards the diaphysis with a...
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Chondrosarcoma
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/436-3211.html
87 year old caucasian lady with a 2 week history of painful swelling of the right hand. This lay predominantly over the dorsum of the hand and middle metacarpo-phalangeal joint, extending into the right middle finger.
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Chondrosarcoma
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/44113211.html
26 year old woman with pain in the left hip.Mature adult male with a history of 'bad sciatica'.
86 year old woman
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Chondrosarcoma
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/443-3211.html
Clinical presentation:
54 year old man with pain in the left hip.
There is a lytic lesion of the neck and metaphysis of the left femur. Its superior margin appears fairly well-defined and the lesion is crossed by many strands of bone, giving a multiloculate appearance. The overlying gluteal fat planes are...
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Chondrosarcoma Amputation Specimen
Location: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/dirt/museum/451-3211.html
Radiograph of pathology specimen after amputation. Mature skeleton. No other detail.
There is a lesion of the distal femoral metaphysis, which has resulted in complete destruction of the metaphysis. Distal to the pathological fracture, the bones are porotic. The specimen shows the extent of extra-axial soft-tissue from the lesion.
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