Practice / Imaging

Imaging practice

See it, interpret it, then answer the surgical question. Each exercise lives inside its specialty’s imaging section, beside the real study it teaches.

Cardiac Surgery
Read the coronary angiogram
A 68-year-old with diabetes and exertional angina despite medical therapy. Coronary angiography is performed. (Fictional educational case.)
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Cardiac Surgery
Find the flap
Tearing chest pain radiating to the back, a pressure difference between arms. CT angiography of the chest. (Fictional educational case.)
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Orthopedic Surgery
Classify the hip fracture
An 84-year-old found on the floor: a shortened, externally rotated leg. AP radiograph of the hip. (Fictional educational case.)
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Neurosurgery
Name the compartment
Knocked out briefly at football, talking normally in the ED, now drowsy two hours later. CT head. (Fictional educational case.)
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General Surgery
Read the obstructed abdomen
Colicky central pain, distension, bilious vomiting, and an appendicectomy scar. Abdominal radiograph. (Fictional educational case.)
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Vascular Surgery
Measure what matters
A 74-year-old smoker, screening ultrasound abnormal, now a CT of the abdomen. (Fictional educational case.)
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Thoracic Surgery
Find the lung edge
A tall 22-year-old with sudden pleuritic pain and breathlessness at rest. Chest radiograph. (Fictional educational case.)
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Urology
The kidney under pressure
Colicky loin-to-groin pain, now rigors and a temperature of 38.9. Renal ultrasound. (Fictional educational case.)
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Colorectal Surgery
The margin that writes the plan
A 61-year-old with rectal bleeding; colonoscopy found a rectal tumour. Staging MRI of the pelvis. (Fictional educational case.)
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Hepatobiliary Surgery
Read the gallbladder
Fatty-food pain for months, now constant for 18 hours with fever. RUQ ultrasound. (Fictional educational case.)
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Trauma & Acute Care Surgery
Thirty seconds in the trauma bay
Cyclist versus car, left flank bruising, BP 88 improving then drifting down. FAST examination. (Fictional educational case.)
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Otolaryngology, Head & Neck
The airway reads first
Three days of sore throat, now fever, trismus and a muffled voice. CT neck with contrast. (Fictional educational case.)
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Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Size the burn, find the danger
A house fire: burns to the anterior trunk and one whole arm, charted on arrival. (Fictional educational case.)
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Pediatric Surgery
The study that cannot wait
A three-day-old, previously feeding well, vomits bile twice. Urgent upper GI contrast study. (Fictional educational case.)
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Ophthalmic Surgery
Is the macula on?
Two days of flashes and floaters, now a curtain across part of the vision. Dilated fundus view. (Fictional educational case.)
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