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RADIOLOGICAL SIGNS IN Photographic effect
X-ray film is made up of cellulose acetate, coated on its both
sides with silver bromide emulsion. P
Sign Seen due to This emulsion is photosensitive and is responsible for P~ effect.
Fluorescent effect
Hyperparathyroidism Salt & pepper skull/ Pepper pot skull.
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Rain drop skull When X-ray strikes mettalic salts like Zn, Cd, sulphides, the rays
cause them to fluoresce.
Paget's disease Tom-O Shanter sign, Photoelectric effect
Widening of inner & outer tables
(Increased diploic space),
Absorption of low energy from radiation in tissue leads to
ionization. Used in diagnostic radiology.
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Cotton wool appearance, Compton effect → d/to absorption of high energy, used in
Osteoporosis-circumscripta d/to large therapeutic radiology.
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well defined lytic lesions
Eosinophilic granuloma Single or multiple , well defined PSEUDOANEURYSM OF ICA
destructive (lytic) bony lesions in boys
usually <10 yr. Pseudoneurysms may arise when there is breach in the vessel
wall such that blood leaks through the wall but is contained by
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Multiple myeloma Multiple lytic and punched out lesions the adventitia or surrounding perivascular soft tissue.
in elderly Penetrating trauma is the most common cause. Other causes can
GE be infection, as an iatrogenic complication following procedures,
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These Updates are from Primes Supplement 2018