| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
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| radiology | 4/1/2008 | CT Guy Carl |
Q: ok I'm a junior at my high school, and I'm taking a health science tech class. I've become ...
A: First you must decide whether you wish to be a Radiologist or a Radiologic Technologist. A ...
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| Education | 4/1/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: my names Jonathan. I'm a junior at my high school. I'm taking a health science tech class right now. ...
A: Are you planning to become a radiologist? if you are, then i am afraid you probably will have to ...
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| My MRI | 3/31/2008 | B. Love AS, R.T.(R) (ARRT) |
Q: Please tell me what this means. There is a very prominent well-circumscribed density at the tip of ...
A: The conus medullaris is the terminal end of the spinal cord. It occurs near lumbar nerves 1 (L1) and ...
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| lumbar mri | 3/30/2008 | B. Love AS, R.T.(R) (ARRT) |
Q: some of the words in my dignosis I do not understand,such as,broad-based disk bulge at l4 l5 with ...
A: My goodness, lots of back questions! It is true about the research suggesting that 95% of us will ...
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| CT Lumbo sacral Spine | 3/30/2008 | B. Love AS, R.T.(R) (ARRT) |
Q: my father's CT scan says there is postero lateral disc buldge causing compression over left neural ...
A: As you suspect I bet the bed rest is aggravating his numerous disck bulges and they are compressing ...
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| my mri | 3/25/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: i was wondering if you can tell me what my mri says.... lumbar vertebral body heights and disc ...
A: this just means that at your upper lumbar spine you have a part of the disc pooching out into the ...
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| hemangiomas | 3/22/2008 | CT Guy Carl |
Q: what is the difference between hemangiomas and schmorals nodes? one radiologist calls it one the ...
A: Schmorl's Nodes are considered to be vertical disc herniations through the cartilaginous vertebral ...
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| Soft Tissue Density | 3/22/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I recently had a chest x-ray and my doctor told me that I have a soft tissue density in front of my ...
A: A soft tissue density in front of your heart could mean a lot of things. It is understandable for ...
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| PET Scan results | 3/16/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I had a PET scan done on Thursday. The results came back on Friday and the nurse told me that the ...
A: focal hypermetabolism means there is an area that has increased tracer FDG activity. It could be ...
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| Please help make sense of this ct scan report. | 3/16/2008 | CT Guy Carl |
Q: The below paragraph was taken from my husbands ct scan report. I am unsure what it means exactly. ...
A: The radiologist reported specifically "suspicious for possible tumor recurrence". That should be ...
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| MRI lumbar spine | 3/14/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: First let me give you the impression 1.)Focal degenerative disk disease with small central disk ...
A: It does seem confusing that your symptoms do not correlate with the MRI findings. I suppose it is ...
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| MRI | 3/13/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: For the last two years I have had numbness and loss of sensation in my left leg, chronic lower back ...
A: Small physiologic ovarian cysts may come and goes. The size and your age also determine how ...
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| CT Scan & Pregnancy. | 3/11/2008 | CT Guy Carl |
Q: I have some simple questions for you to anwser if possible. I had a CT Scan done Feb 17th of 2008. ...
A: This is a complicated matter as the specific type of CT scanner acquisition parameters directly ...
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| postion for a mri on left elbow, | 3/9/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I recently had a mri on my left elbow,The radiologist let me wear my glasses (which were sucked off ...
A: sorry to hear about your mishap with the glasses. That's the reason why we collect virtually ...
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| abnormal PET scan activity | 3/4/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I recently was informed that the whole body PET scan had abnormal activity in a single L ...
A: I am sorry things haven't been clear cut for you. Many noncancerous things can cause increased ...
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| Stages of Radiology | 3/4/2008 | CT Guy Carl |
Q: I was just wondering, what are the names that you receive as you go higher into Radiology. For ...
A: The divisions in the profession are divided into medical and technical. The technical portion is ...
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| Thyroid and Kidney on CT | 2/29/2008 | CT Guy Carl |
Q: 2 quick questions. I was diagnosed with kidney cancer in October 2007 by CT. My most recent CT ...
A: I am sorry to learn of your cancer diagnosis. I hope your treatment is going well. The perinephritic ...
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| Liver CT - RCC | 2/29/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I was diagnosed with kidney cancer in my right kidney in October 2007 by CT. At that time the CT ...
A: Regarding the type of contrasts you were given, barium is an oral contrast. you might or might not ...
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| senerio | 2/25/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I was curious, if a man walks in rad department, he was working on a transformer, and the pole got ...
A: Hmm, I hope this isn't you or someone you know. Sorry about the electric shock. The xrays are good ...
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| residual thymic tissue | 2/24/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: My 20 year old had a work physcial that required a chest x-ray due to a positive ppd. the x-ray ...
A: If she is healthy without any symptoms and if the physical exam is normal, this is most likely what ...
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| MRI LUMBAR | 2/22/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: Could you put in layman terms what subligamentous central disc extrusion at L5-S1 which splays the ...
A: A disc has the central portion (nucleus pulposus) and the surrounding part (annulus fibrosus). ...
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| plain english | 2/22/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I just had an MRI and am interested in exactly what the following means: The L2-3 disc if severely ...
A: This means that the disc between L2 L3 is very flattened down. Also there are osteophytes (or bony ...
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| Chest Ct Scan and RCC | 2/21/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: My husband has rcc. He had a nephrectomy back in October 2007 and just had a CT scan of the abdomen ...
A: The size of the nodule is a factor determining how often it should be followed up. A tiny nodule if ...
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| MRI | 2/20/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: What does disc osteopathic thecal indention at C5/6 level with adjacent cord compression and focal ...
A: apologize for the delay. Had an emergency i had to take time off for. This means that at C5/C6 ...
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| Followup Info to Question: MRI - Testing for Muscle and Tendon Injuries | 2/19/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: I lost my original page on this site where you had answered my earlier questions. I am including ...
A: From the report, it looks like there is some mild narrowing of the space around spinal cord at ...
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| CATSCANS | 2/19/2008 | CT Guy Carl |
Q: I was born with a rare facial defect and several other defects. I have had multiple surgeries over ...
A: I'm sorry to hear of your congenital defects and the need for repeated CT scans. To answer your last ...
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| chest ct | 2/15/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: Can you read a ct scan with and without contrast? I have a copy given me by the radiologist. I was ...
A: I am sorry to hear about that. Unfortunately, with your history of cancer, you are at a higher ...
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| chest ct | 2/14/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: Can you read a ct scan with and without contrast? I have a copy given me by the radiologist. I was ...
A: Am I correct in assuming that the spot or shadow is referred to as a nodule on the report? A small ...
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| need to understand test results | 2/7/2008 | Rad1234 |
Q: i received a letter of test results today maybe you can explain what it means an abnormal or ...
A: A hyperdensity in the spleen on contrast CT scan is most likely as the report says a benign ...
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| X-ray and Ultrasound results | 1/22/2008 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: I have questions regarding the following and hope that you can help to answer; A) My husband 42, ...
A: Angela, I can see you feel a little bit too anxious about all this and I don't blame you, but I'm ...
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| breast cyst | 1/17/2008 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: I'm sorry. I had already sent off the repeated question before I got your explanation. How about ...
A: No problem, simple cysts are forget-me lesions from an imaging point of view; of course, if it's ...
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| central canal stenosis | 12/25/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: could you tell me if there is need for concern with this mri report,my current doctor,having seen ...
A: I did not mean you should forget about it, I meant there is nothing malignant or seriously bad, it's ...
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| 3 mm LLL pulmonary nodule | 12/22/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: I had a CT of my abdomen and pelvis because I was complaining of abdominal pain which showed ...
A: Don't worry, any lung nodules 3mm or less don't need to be followed, this is the new recommendation ...
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| Cerebral Angiogram | 12/20/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: During a Cerebral Angiogram I was having done for a possible Dural AV Fistual, they told me my face ...
A: I don't think it's weird, it's just the iodine (Xray dye) that usually gives patients that ...
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| MRI results | 12/20/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: Can you explain minimal broad-based midline disc bulge L1-L2 disc level.....Several sites of mild ...
A: This is all related to degenerative disease, since an image is worth a thousand words I want you to ...
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| Thecal Sac/ Disc Compression | 12/18/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: I injured my back on 10/19/07 lifting at work. At first the doctors thought it was an L/S Strain but ...
A: From the report, I don't think there's anything in that MRI to explain right leg symptoms but ...
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| Towne's projection | 12/15/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: what is Towne's projection ? does it different from Reverse Towne's projection ?
A: This is one of the views we use to look at the skull and facial bones, reverse Towne's will give you ...
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| bone scan results | 12/14/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: Can you explain to me what increased intense hypermetabolic activity would mean? My husband has ...
A: It means that the bones are reacting to something, in a patient with prostate cancer we are worried ...
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| Can you help me interpret this MRI? | 12/14/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: My mother recently had an MRI done. She is 52 years old with recent history of memory lapse: one day ...
A: This is usually related to small vessel disease (hypertension, diabetes, vasculitis, the list goes ...
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| need answers | 12/8/2007 | Alain Ortiz |
Q: HAD MRI BECAUSE I HAVE TINGLING IN BOTH ARMS AND LEGS COMES AND GOES MORE WHEN I TRY TO SLEEP CAN ...
A: This is all related to degenerative disease of the spine and, yes, it may explain symptoms such as ...
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