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🎧 🎙️ Episode 73 of The Reading Room is out!

Sally Ayesa chats with Rahil Kassamali and Warren Clements about careers, fellowships, academia and work-life balance.

Plus: awkward anecdotes, a very smelly story, and the “your honour” rule.

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January 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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☢️ CT & 🧲 MRI: Large mixed-density abdominal mass with vessels tracking to left inguinal region. Absent normal left spermatic cord. Enlarged para-aortic nodes.

✅ Seminoma in undescended testis

📒 Magdi Mahsoub, radiopaedia.org/cases/207190
December 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🩻 X-ray: Widening of medial proximal tibial physis
🧲 MRI: Salter-Harris I fracture with entrapped periosteum & adjacent bone bruising

✅ Trapped periosteum in the proximal tibial physis

📒 Mathias Tykgaard Clausen, radiopaedia.org/cases/203397
December 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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🧲 MRI: Thickening and increased signal of the left greater occipital nerve, consistent with neuritis.

✅ Occipital neuralgia due to herpes zoster

📒 Vu Ke Khoi, radiopaedia.org/cases/202884
December 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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☢️ CT: Splenic subcapsular haematoma with haemoperitoneum in a β-hCG positive patient.

🔬 Pathology confirmed ectopic placental tissue in the spleen.

📒 Case courtesy of Lam Van Le, radiopaedia.org/cases/202599
December 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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☢️ CT: Gas and fluid within a thickened epiglottis with adjacent collection and supraglottic oedema.

✅ Acute emphysematous epiglottitis

📒 Case courtesy of Adam Z. Fink, radiopaedia.org/cases/199917
December 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🧲 MRI for right hemiparesis following a viral illness shows chronic left basal ganglia infarcts with MCA narrowing.

🧠 Suggestive of inflammatory focal cerebral arteriopathy post viral illness.

📒 Utkarsh Kabra, radiopaedia.org/cases/199197
December 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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A breast ultrasound scar forms a Christmas tree, 25 years after cancer surgery. A reminder of the shared work of radiologists, clinicians, & technologists, & the long-term impact of what we do together.

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December 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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🧲 MRI shows bilateral intra-pelvic undescended testes with a uterus-like blind-ending structure posterior to the bladder.

🧬 Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome in a phenotypic male.

📒 Mahmoud Ibrahim Mekhaimar, radiopaedia.org/cases/197568
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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☢️ CT shows a multiloculated cystic right temporal bone lesion with intraosseous, extradural and extracranial components.

🧠 Rare cranial hydatid disease.

📒 Case courtesy of Mohammad Sattouf
radiopaedia.org/cases/195027
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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🧲 MRI and 🔊 US show diffuse patellar tendon thickening with focal echogenic change.
🔬 Gouty patellar tendinopathy.

📒 Case courtesy of Domenico Nicoletti; radiopaedia.org/cases/194602
December 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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🧲 MRI: bilateral cortical & deep grey matter diffusion restriction, no bleeding, comatose patient

☠️ Acute cyanide poisoning, selectively affecting high oxygen demand brain regions

📒 Tran Dai Nghia, radiopaedia.org/cases/192877
December 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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☢️ CT shows an obstructing left main bronchus lesion with complete left lung collapse.

🔬 Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour.

📒 Case courtesy of Christin Wei Tong Lim radiopaedia.org/cases/192175
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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🧲 MRI shows an aggressive pelvic mass involving bladder and uterus.

🔬 CT guided biopsy confirmed pelvic actinomycosis, a key inflammatory mimicker.

📒 Laura Machado, radiopaedia.org/cases/188615
December 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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🚀 Gallbladder volvulus

🔑 CT: distended thick-walled GB, poor enhancement, horizontal lie, medially pointing fundus, beak at neck, twisted vessels

🔪 Surgery: torted cystic duct/artery → cholecystectomy

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December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎯 Child with leg length discrepancy

🎯 X-rays show multiple lytic lesions with rings and arcs calcification, right-sided predominance

🎯 Ollier disease is the most common enchondromatosis with unilateral involvement causing limb length discrepancy

👤 Leonardo Lustosa radiopaedia.org/cases/207640
December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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🚀 Multimodality imaging of MEN 1

1️⃣ Pancreatic NET (gastrinoma) → Zollinger Ellison, DJ perforation

2️⃣ Parathyroid adenoma → ↑ calcium, renal stones

3️⃣ Pituitary adenoma → ↑ prolactin

🔥 Exam tip: autosomal dominant

📚 radiopaedia.org/cases/206567
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🎯 Mass in the hilum that contacts hilar vessels will obscure them, similar to the silhouette sign.

🎯 Hilum overlay sign: mass anterior or posterior to the hilum does not touch the vessels so they remain visible through it.

👤 @stefantigges.bsky.social, radiopaedia.org/cases/224567
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🎯 15 yo with abdominal distension and mass.

🎯 CT: Massive splenic enlargement with multiple cystic, partly calcified lesions.

🎯 Splenectomy: 4.8 kg spleen with thin-walled cysts.

🎯 Splenic lymphangioma.

👤 Tan (Vivian) Hooi Hooi radiopaedia.org/cases/202622
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎧 🎙️ Episode 72 of The Reading Room is out!

Joe Mullineux, Katy Hickman & Ed Godfrey break down PSC, gallbladder disease and pancreatitis, including image-guided interventions.

Plus: Victoria Bitter, mosh pits, halo braces, deadly animals and our December supporter drive!

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December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🎯 4-day-old with distension and no meconium.

🎯 AXR/enema: dilated small bowel (orange), microcolon with reduced calibre large bowel (yellow), normal rectosigmoid ratio.

🎯 Surgery: fibrous cord (green) causing ileal atresia.

👤 Case courtesy of Magdi Mahsoub radiopaedia.org/cases/207445
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🧠 MRI: Symmetrical T2/FLAIR high signal and diffusion restriction in the caudate (orange) and putamen, plus hippocampi, cerebellar hemispheres (green) and subtle cortical change (yellow).

⚡ Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy after cardiac arrest.

👤 Case: Magdi Mahsoub, radiopaedia.org/cases/207109
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM