Cases

Dear ocaders, I ask again for your advice. 42 years old female, osteosarcoma of the proximal fibula. Surgery abroad, dedicated sarcoma center, oncological margins preserved, curetage of the adjacent tibia, everything went fine (chimio+radio) July 2020 no recurrence, some tibial areas probably due to radiotherapy January 2021, after 8 month, tibia is now fine, all […]

Hi Ocad’ers! We had an odd case come through recently. Multiple lesions in the hand and wrist, biopsied with working diagnosis of epithelioid hemangioma/angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. I can’t say I’m familiar with this diagnosis – there seems to be only case reports of bone involvement. Wondering if any of you all have seen anything

Dear ocaders, this patient had surgery for a quite big tumor – chondromyxoid fibroma the defect was filled with cement – 3 month after surgery, seemed fine – there is some gap between cement on bone (last slice) – after 15 month, it seems to me there is some loosening of the cement especially upper

history of acute onset back pain  Pretty similar to disc related epidural hematoma shared with us by Dr Phillip Tirman couple of months back, although not too much of disc disease in this case.  Interesting 1. Acute denervation edema along L3 distribution (which can be expected).2. Contrast enhancement is little more diffuse than just peripheral. ?

Hello, OCAD-MAK! May I ask for your opinion? A 10-year-old male with incidental bony lesion at anterior aspect of the right distal femur cortical desmoid? apophysitis like Osgood Schlatter disease? Do you have any experience at anterior distal femur ? cortical-irregulaity.pdf

A question for OCADers: Who is doing 3D isotropic imaging of joints on a regular basis? How long is the acquisition on average? Are you using GE or Siemens (or other)? 1.5T/3T? What are the major image quality issues? We are investigating 3T scanners and are interested in integrating these sequences but want to know