Differential Flashcards
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Always check for:
If we see aorta, check for trauma or dissection.
PTX, Pneumoperitoneum
Isodense SDH
Fxs
Thinks CA for everything (urethral filling defect - long segment “TCC would not be expected to look like this but it would have to be a consideration”.
Cardiac attenuation versus scar. Look at 3D rotating views to eval breasts. Look for elevation of left diaphragm. Chk WM and contractility.
Cardiac nucs: TID, fixed, reversible.
Repeated misses: AFI For every Ddx, add CA Pelvic kidney GB cancer (sludge? - move pt, check Doppler) Scimitar Epiglottitis CP cysts PDA: primi w jacked CXR. Consider when considering surfactant deficiency. Infarct on nucs cardiac scan. Free air in hepatorenal fossa. Isodense Subdurals. TB MAI SI
Odontoid Erosion
PLARD Psoriasis Lupus AS RA Downs
Platybasia
POOR Pagets Osteogenesis Imperfecta Osteomalacia Rickets
Basilar Invagination
PF ROACH Pagets FD Rickets OI, OM Achondroplasia Cleidocranial dysplasia HPTH, Hurlers
Madelung
Idiopathic Turner's Dyschondrosteosis (dwarfism) Vascular insufficiency Trauma Mucopolysacharidosis
Short MC
Idiopathic Post traumatic Turner's JIA Hypothyroidism Hypoparathyroidism
Large Echogenic kidneys
ARPKD
HIV
Acute Glomerulonephritis
Vasculitis
Meckel Gruber, T13
Small Kidneys
ATH/Embolic dz Post obstructive atrophy HD Chronic medical renal dz Medullary cystic dz
Large kidneys (variable echogenecity)
DM
CVD
Lymphoma/Leukemia
Synovial Cyst Ddx
Extruded disc fragment
Septic facet
Nerve sheath tumor
Asym lig flavum hypertrophy
Orbital muscle enlargement w/o
sparing of the MT jxs (thyroid spares)
LIMPS Lymphoma Infection (Lyme) Mets/myositis Pseudotumor Sarcoid (lacrimal mC)
Lacrimal gland enlargement
LAPPSS Lymphoma Adenoid cystic CA Pseudotumor Pleomorphic adenoma Sarcoid Sjogrens
Intraconal mass
Lymphoma Hemangioma Pseudotumor NST Mets Wegeners, sarcoid
Plexiform NF
Schwannoma Meningioma Hemangioma Neuroblastoma Glioma
High signal in pons
Pontine glioma Ischemia MS Central pontine myelinosis Vascular malformation (50% of cap telangiectasias show increased T2)
Middle Ear Lesions
Abberent carotid Glomus tympanicum Cholesteatoma Jugular dehiscence Facial nerve NST
Neurocysticercosis
VCGC Vesicular Colloidal vesicular Granular nodular Nodular calcified
Ddx: abscess, TB, mets, enlarged peri vascular spaces, crypto meningitis, toxo
Increased T1 Basal Ganglia
Calcium/blood Hepatic disease TPN Wilson's Melanin
Increased T2 Basal Ganglia
Hypoxia
CO (GP) or CN
Wilson’s
Scizencephaly
SOD
Leukodystrophies - age of onset
XL adrenoleukodystrophy: teens
Alexander’s: infantile, juv, adult
Canavan’s: 4 months
Metachromatic: infantile, juv, adult
Meta is MC
Small smooth kidney
RAS (normal CS)
Post obs atrophy (dilated CS)
Nodular with scarring
Striated nephrogrm
RVT
Obst
Pyelonephritis
Adrenal adenoma washout
- Relative
- Absolute
- Relative 40%
- Absolute 60% at 15 m