Read the NCCT correctly

A patient presented to the medicine casualty with left hemiparesisof 5 hours duration. His NCCT head was sought correctly and immediately, the images are underneath, what do they show??Well the casualty resident took his time and came to the conclusion that this was normal, and surprisingly informed the clinical neurology resident instead...


Inguinal canal and retroperitoneal hematoma during femoral puncture

Hemorrhage during femoral puncture prior to angiography is a rare complication and if unnoticed can lead to fatal retroperitoneal hematoma.In this case we were able to identify the hemorhage only because the guidewire was not passing up straight and there was a very deceptive free back flow of blood from the sheath. However the arterial lumen...


Hypertrophic Inferior Olivary degeneration due to brainstem cavernoma

Hello friends.This is the case of a 50 years old male presenting with right hemiparesis since a year, which had been mopre or less staticMRI showed a left sided pontine and middle cerebellar peduncular cavernoma and hypertrophied left inferior olivary nucleus.
Coronal T2WI
Axial GRE showing left pontine cavernoma
Axial T2WI showing...

