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Stefan Tigges

2 years

For the next week, I’ll post excerpts from our “How to Read a Head CT” comic. Today is 5/5. The comic is available for free at:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

93 CT scans on the work list at at 7:51 am. Please send wellness modules.

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It took me 8 hours & 40 ounces of coffee to draw this gag, totally worth it.

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This week I’ll be posting cases/tutorials. Today, we’ll discuss Ground-Glass Opacity. 3/5

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Stefan Tigges

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2 years

Right pneumothorax with what I think is the "culprit bleb" that ruptured.

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Stefan Tigges

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2 years

Working on a simple drawing for readers of the "How To Read A Head CT" comic to draw for themselves to better remember negative mass effect of parenchymal loss due to chronic stroke. Each of the 10 chapters has a drawing exercise to help cement key concepts.

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3 years

Learn Anatomy on Twitter! Monday drawing. This week, the pelvis. See if you can draw this picture, drawing will help you learn the anatomy! If you need review, check out my comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Our "How to Read a Head CT" Comic is now available on @Radiopaedia ! This free course includes >320 panels, 10 supplementary playlists, one lovable bear, 10 drawings for readers to do, 20 MCQs & innumerable bad jokes.

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3 years

Beautiful old-school renal angiogram.

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3 years

Working on an explanation for cytotoxic vs. vasogenic edema for the "How To Read A Head CT" comic. Any suggestions? @tabby_kennedy @RyanBPetersonMD @phudge54 @saspist @Kriota @DShatzkes @CDP_Rad @RichDuszak @garciapiresmd

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3 years

Trying to come up with the simplest possible drawings of "normal" brain, epi/subdural hematoma for nascent "How To Read A Head CT" comic.

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3 years

Working on a case that shows how to distinguish a lung abscess abutting the chest wall from an empyema, something I still struggle with. Fortunately, Papa Bear is around to help me.

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Super brief explanation of IV contrast use in head CT. Remember, the "How To Read A Head CT" comic is pitched at a med student/intern level.

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@StefanTigges

2 years

This patient has a pneumothorax, but where is it? If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

I've uploaded this before, but I like it so I'm uploading it again.

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@StefanTigges

3 years

I know a good idea when I steal one. At the end of every chapter of the "How To Read A Head CT" comic, there's a brief drawing lesson to reinforce key concepts. The brilliant EM doc @PhysicianDoodle came up w/ this memorable way of learning clinical ACA/MCA/PCA stroke findings.

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3 years

This week I’ll be posting cases/tutorials. Today, we’ll discuss the differences between a subdural and an epidural hematoma. I've got a new batch of 5 cases/tutorials ready for early next month. 5/5

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@StefanTigges

3 years

I've been spending too much time on @Radiopaedia !

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Learn Evidence-Based Medicine on Twitter! Today: ROC curves.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

2 years

Does this patient have bilateral pneumothoraces? If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Normal and friends.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 months

This week I’ll be uploading selections from our upcoming free “How to Read an MSK Imaging” comic we’re preparing for @Radiopaedia . Today, the Weber classification of ankle fractures. In the meantime, have a look at our free abdominal CT comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Fantastic edits from my "How To Read An Abdominal CT" co-author @MP_Hartung !

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@StefanTigges

3 years

How to remember the shapes of epi/extradural vs. subdural hematomas.

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Chest radiology for bears.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

1 year

Here’s another Chest X-ray case. Want to learn more about reading Chest X-rays? Go to my free “How To Read A Chest X-Ray” comic at Radiopaedia. org:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Learn Evidence-Based Medicine on Twitter! Today: p-values.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

A week of visual explanations, Day 4: Sensitivity & Specificity Part 1.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

7 years

I'm supposed to believe AI will replace me w/in 3 years when we still use fax machines and rely on beepers to let our fellow docs know about life threatening abnormalities. Come on!

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

2 years

Pneumomediastinum. If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my free comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

@EM_RESUS Similar case.

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2 years

Learn Evidence-Based Medicine on Twitter! Today: confounding.

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Can you tell the difference between a lung abscess abutting the chest wall & an empyema? It can be tricky! If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my free comic:

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2 years

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

4 years

Back to my specialty, dumb Radiologist jokes. Stole this idea from @DShadowgazer .

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

5 years

@klaustoon @dgllana @j_echarte @comicarchitect @MAngel_Arqto @laperiferia @miqadria @javiercaster @ODPomery @ShedworksGreg @veredes Best sight gag ever, from "Asterix and Cleopatra".

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@StefanTigges

2 years

This week I’ll present brief PowerPoint tutorials. Today, how to remove unwanted picture backgrounds. If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

“We should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.” Geoff Hinton, 24 November 2016

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

Finally discussing signs in Neuroradiology. I'd already covered dense MCA/basilar & MCA dot signs, so I wanted to cover some other ones, including a brand new one that I learned from @caseyalbin ! @BrentWeinberg @francisdeng

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

2 years

This week I’ll be posting cases/tutorials. Today, we’ll discuss mammography basics. If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my free comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

@Caulimovirus True: CT Chest IMPRESSION: 1) Status post gunshot left chest, with extensive contusion/laceration left lung, massive hemopneumothorax, & 5 cm pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm with active extravasation. 2) 1.5 cm cyst right thyroid lobe, consider outpatient ultrasound & aspiration.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

It's time for the med school to crank up again, here's a bingo card for the upcoming lectures.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

1 year

If you like coffee, have a look at this case. If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

4 years

Covid, covid, covid.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

2 years

Have a look at this CXR & see if you can figure out what accounts for the radiographic findings. If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

Section from the subdural hematoma part of the "How To Read A Head CT Comic". 3.5 chapters to go to complete the first draft. Thanks again to all of the @Radiopaedia case contributors. On to SAH.

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Working on some abdominal teaching cases. Giblets! @saspist

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Which one are you?

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

4 years

Learn Anatomy on Twitter! 2 weeks of drawing, day # 3. Today, we’ll do the Mid-brain in the axial plane. See if you can draw this picture, drawing will help you learn the anatomy!

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

This week I’ll be posting cases/tutorials. Today, we’ll discuss some basic mammography. 4/5

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

This week I’ll post Chest X-ray cases. Want to learn more about reading Chest X-rays? Go to my free “How To Read A Chest X-Ray” comic at Radiopaedia. org:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

This right shoulder is severely abnormal, but why? If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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3 years

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@StefanTigges

1 year

This case will teach you about one of the causes of lung atelectasis. If you’d like to learn how to read Chest X-rays, check out my free online interactive comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

For the next 2 weeks, I’ll post drawing exercises/illustrations that will help you learn some of the basics of interpreting CXRs. My free “How to Read a Chest X-Ray” comic is available at:

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Learn Anatomy on Twitter! 1 week of drawing, day # 2. Today, we’ll do the Midbrain. See if you can draw this picture, drawing will help you learn anatomy!

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Moved on to the stroke chapter of the "How To Read A Head CT" comic. Incredibly grateful to @Radiopaedia for information, inspiration & cases, especially @frankgaillard . CT fogging, that was a new one on me, mind blown!

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Why does this person have chest pain? If you’d like to learn how to read Chest X-rays, check out my free online interactive comic:

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@StefanTigges

3 years

S-L-O-W-L-Y getting thru the H2Ocephalus chapter in the "How to Read a Head CT" comic.

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Medical literature evidence hierarchy, but it's not without critics!

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Can you tell the difference between a lung abscess abutting the chest wall & an empyema? It can be tricky! If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my free comic:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

Revised illustrations for differences in vasogenic (often tumor related) & cytotoxic+ionic (ischemia) edema. @francisdeng @RyanBPetersonMD @tabby_kennedy @enfuvirtide @mertderdiyok9 @AhmedAAKhalil @phudge54

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@StefanTigges

1 year

AI picked up these PEs on our worklist & bumped them to the front of our queue. I'm impressed. I don't know which AI program this is.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

I'll be flogging my new "How To Read A Chest X-Ray" course all week. A pleasure working w/ @DrAndrewDixon getting the course online. Bonus: got called "mate". Course link:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

2 years

Have I gone too far?

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

This week I’ll post Chest X-ray cases. Want to learn more about reading Chest X-rays? Go to my free ”How To Read A Chest X-Ray” comic at Radiopaedia. org:

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Learn Anatomy on Twitter! Monday: Drawing day. This week, we’re going to study the ankle. See if you can draw this picture, drawing will help you learn the anatomy! If you need review, check out my comic:

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@StefanTigges

3 years

I think all this neuroanatomy I'm learning is getting to me.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

2 years

For the next 2 weeks, I’ll post the 10 end-of-chapter drawing exercises for our “How to Read a Head CT” comic. Today is 2/10, the circle of Willis. The comic is available for free at:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

Shamelessly stole this idea from Randall Munroe and all of the other people on Twitter who adapted it for their own specialty.

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@StefanTigges

2 years

This case will test your ability to make important findings at the “corners of the film”. If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my free Radiopaedia comic:

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3 years

Moved on to the subarachnoid hemorrhage part of the "How To Read A Head CT" comic, again grateful to the resources available on @Radiopaedia w/out which this comic would be much more difficult to put together. @RyanBPetersonMD @tabby_kennedy

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Can you find the suture needle on this CXR? I had a very helpful history, undoubtedly written by the medical student, telling me exactly where to look, but I'm not that nice.

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3 years

Ever struggled finding a pneumothorax on a supine pCXR? Of course you have, we all do! Here’s a finding that can help. If you want to learn how to read a CXR using an interactive comic book format, check out my Radiopaedia course:

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Draw "Midbrain Mouse", from the "How To Read a Head CT" comic.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

4 years

Sorry to be so late, but one thing I like to do with students and residents is draw simple pictures and make the learner do and label the drawing with me. The larynx is my favorite. #RadioGraphics

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3 years

Moved on to the hypertensive hemorrhage part of the "How To Read A Head CT" comic, moving on to hydrocephalus. @RyanBPetersonMD @tabby_kennedy

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1 year

1/3 Interested in learning about abnormal abdominal air? This thread, from the 7th chapter of our ( @MP_Hartung & me) still gestating Abdominal CT comic should help! In the meantime, if you want to learn how to read Head CTs, our free comic is available at:

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@StefanTigges

3 years

@DShadowgazer I remember being shocked that you could distinguish individual tree leaves and blades of grass.

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Working on the meningeal anatomy part of the "How To Read A Head CT" comic. I think "epidural" is American & the rest of the English-speaking world says "extradural".

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Cerebral contusions & coup-contrecoup injuries with Ignatz Mouse for the "How To Read A Head CT" comic.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

4 years

Last day as M3 Radiology Clerkship Director today after 10+ years.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

1 year

Here’s another Chest X-ray case. Want to learn more about reading Chest X-rays? Go to my free “How To Read A Chest X-Ray” comic at Radiopaedia. org:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Granulomata.

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@StefanTigges

3 years

Starting the explanation of windows and levels for "How To Read A Head CT".

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

Nice example of atelectasis w/ 3 signs of left-sided volume loss: 1) shift of mediastinum to left, 2) superior displacement of left diaphragm & 3) decreased amount of space between left ribs. In an intubated ICU patient, most likely etiology is a left bronchial mucous plug.

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Want to expand your differential diagnosis of cavitary lung nodules beyond metastases & infection? Have a look at this case. If you’d like to learn more about how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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@StefanTigges

2 years

Learn Evidence-Based Medicine on Twitter! Today: prevalence.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

11 months

What is going on with the right upper lobes in these 2 patients? If you’re interested in learning Radiology with comics, tap/click here:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

2 years

Typical case of reactivation TB with endobronchial spread. Cavitary process right upper lobe with multiple lung nodules due to endobronchial spread. If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

Still plugging away on the H2Ocephalus chapter.

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

3 years

In 4 days, wife, daughter & I packed/unpacked, drove >1,000 miles Atl to Bos this U-Haul of the damned so daughter can start Coastal Geology PhD at BU. Lessons learned: back of truck is wider than front, NY parkways can't handle tuck height> 10 ft, 911 operators can be sarcastic.

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@StefanTigges

1 year

What could be causing total “white out” of the left chest? If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my free comic:

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Stefan Tigges

@StefanTigges

4 years

@ArtKellermannMD @chowkydar @JenniferSpicer4 & @pash22 since it's important for COVID testing, you inspired me to simplify the explanation of diagnostic test metrics. If you mavens could tell me: 1) Did I make any mistakes 2) How could I improve this & 3) Is this useful? Thanks!

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@StefanTigges

5 years

@unrooolie Your manuscript has been accepted without revisions.

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@StefanTigges

4 years

First day back in Anatomy lab after a one year absence, felt great. Two hard working students were looking for the thymus gland in an 80 year old, I told them to stop, I felt useful. Two of the students found a probe patent foramen ovale, exciting!

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2 years

Statistics for bears.

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@StefanTigges

11 months

Does this patient have bilateral pneumothoraces? If you’d like to learn how to read chest X-Rays, check out my comic:

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@StefanTigges

3 years

A week of visual explanations, Day 3: Mediastinal Divisions.

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2 years

@AvrahamCooperMD Beautiful illustration of the "tree-in-bud" sign (white arrow) that occurs when distal airways are filled, usually with inflammatory material on a CT, in this case with barium after (unfortunate) aspiration.

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