Challenging Ultrasound Diagnoses

Challenging Ultrasound Diagnoses

Bedside ultrasound is a useful tool to the clinician evaluating a possible emergency medical condition. The use of ultrasound by clinicians, from emergency physicians to surgeons to family practice physicians, is increasing. With increased use, unusual or unexpected findings will occur. The clinician-sonographer should be aware of the potential limitations as well as the possible incidental fin...

Prehospital ultrasound in emergency medicine: incidence, feasibility, indications and diagnoses.

BACKGROUND Sonography is an established diagnostic procedure in hospitals, but is not routinely used in prehospital emergency medicine. Several studies have addressed the use of ultrasound during helicopter flights and in emergency rooms, few in prehospital settings, but most focused on abdominal blunt trauma. Several case reports describe crucial decisions distinguished by ultrasound. METHOD...

Ultrasound contrast agent delivered per os first diagnoses pharyngoesophageal tumour.

Oral administration of ultrasound contrast agents has been described very little so far in medical literature. These agents are mainly administered intravenously and, less commonly, intracavitarily. We present the case of a patient with a cervical mass in whom sonographic examination with per os administration of SonoVue led to the diagnosis of a pharyngoesophageal tumour. The diagnosis was con...

Cervical FISH Testing for Triage and Support of Challenging Diagnoses: A Case Study of 2 Patients.

PATIENTS A 29-year-old Caucasian woman (patient 1) and a 23-year-old Caucasian woman (patient 2).Chief Complaints: Abnormal Pap tests with high risk HPV positivity. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS PATIENT 1 In June 2014, this patient was diagnosed with atypical squamous cells of uncertain significance (ASCUS) after a routine screening cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) test. Reflex high risk human pap...

Congenital myasthenic syndromes and myasthenia gravis are challenging diagnoses in neurological practice.