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Can ya spot it?
From an MRI done this morning.
Spent a horrible thanksgiving mostly on my back, ending up in the emergency room with a dilaudid and valum iv.
Not sure why they combined the images like this. You can see the radial fracture a little better than before, apparently due to the healing process, and you can still see the bone chip from the ulna.
suki's anticipated cruciate surgery went very well today. his body is a little lopsided from favoring his left leg. vet says it ought to straighten out with the fixed ligament. now we just have to keep him from running for 12 weeks.
Two months post op. Airport security's gonna love me. This is the posterior view of the plate that is holding my fusion sites in place. My neck looks wonky here, but it's considerably straighter now than before the surgery.
Nice contrast between "sharply defined" calcified pleural plaques on the right and "poorly defined" upper lobe collapse on the left. The plaques are probably more likely due to tuberculous empyema as the yare unilateral, but may rarely be due to asbestos. The LUL collapse raises suspicion of an obstructing hilar carcinoma.
Although superficially similar, pulmonary fibrosis (L) and interstitial oedema (R) can often be distinguished. Established fibrosis has a highly characteristic ring-connected-by-wavy-lines ("reticular") morphology while oedema is seen as short straight lines with a pleural base.