From my teaching files

Meningioma of the choroid plexus Ken U. Ekechukwu, MD, MPH, FACP

History This case is a young woman who had a brain MRI because of chronic headache. Radiologic findings The images are a combination of T1 (before and after gadolinium enhancement), T2, and FLAIR pulse sequences in axial, sagittal and coronal sections of the patient’s brain (not all of the original images are in the monograph). […]

Lipoblastomatosis Ken U. Ekechukwu, MD, MPH, FACP

History A mother brought her 2-year-old son to the hospital because she had noticed that his left buttock was larger than his right buttock. There was no antecedent trauma and the mass was painless. According to his mother, the child had been well until the mass appeared, but except for its unsightliness, it did not […]

Who are interventional radiologists? ; Ken U. Ekechukwu, MD, MPH, FACP.

Who are interventional radiologists? First, let me explain who interventional radiologists are not: they are not surgeons, radiation oncologists, cardiologists, oncologists, gastroenterologists, internists, and so on. They are physicians, who, like other physicians, went through the rigorous paths of qualification to bear the “MD” appelation. They then went through additional residency training that required 1 year of […]

Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma Ken U. Ekechukwu, MD, MPH, FACP

History A 15-year-old boy saw his pediatrician for painless nontraumatic deformity of his left face and chronic nasal stuffiness. The pediatrician referred him to an ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon, who learnt from the boy’s mother that her son lost his ability to smell with his left nostril about 1 year before presenting […]

Gossypiboma Ken U. Ekechukwu, MD, MPH, FACP

History A 50-year-old Mexican woman presented with abdominal pain to the emergency department of a hospital in the United States of America 12 months after a successful gastric surgery in her native land. She reported that 6 months after her surgery she developed epigastric discomfort and underwent treatment for what she was told was a […]

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