Friday, July 04, 2008

Mea Maxima Culpa

Continuing the missed X-Ray series.


I thought the second radiograph was o.k; so I fell back on the age old staple of serial observation. The patient settled, so no CT. 3 weeks later she called to say the pain had not settled, and returned for a review...


I apologise for the limited quality of the images thusfar; but I think the abnormalities are visible on this one; sadly my colleague, who reviewed the patient, didn't...

4 comments:

Alice said...

I don't get it 'cos I don't know what a normal one looks like. In my experience people are usually less grey and bony than this person, but I have the feeling I'm missing something...

Unknown said...

looks like a clavicle fracture to me...am i right?

Alice said...

What's a clavicle?

Alex Stoker said...

Collarbone; sorry