Thursday, August 2, 2012

Another elbow ORIF...

This one isn't as straight forward with the healing process.
It's a supracondylar fracture of the elbow. The patient underwent surgery including an olecranon osteotomy fixation.
The screws other than the olcranon fixation got infected. There is also degeneration in the elbow joint itself.
Movement with the patient was difficult. They couldn't supinate the arm so i had to do the AP view (or for this case PA) cross-table.
While there is bone growth from the previous films, the likelihood of easy movement is very unlikely.


Thursday, July 26, 2012

Osgood Schlatter disease

66 y/o patient with Osgood Schlatter disease presenting with bilateral knee pain, left greater than the right.


Thursday, July 12, 2012

New position?

I think one of my doctors just invented a new xray position.
Any thoughts?
This was to see what the bump was on the right side and it only showed up when flexed.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Magic floating buttons!

I was xraying a patient who had on a shirt with buttons with metal in them. Rather than making them change, I just stuck a sponge down their shirt.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Interesting artifact

53 y/o patient complaining of bilateral hip pain. Found this interesting artifact. It might be hard to read but it says je t'taime ("I love you" in French).



Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Wrist implant

AP and Lateral views of a wrist arthroplasty performed 4 years ago.