r/Radiology

For me it’s something my father, also a radiologist, taught me decades ago. The human body is a bunch of tubes. Only 1 of 6 bad things can happen to that tube:

1. Innie (polyps/neoplasia)
2. Outies (diverticula, fistula and perforation)
3. Narrowing
4. Dilation
5. Thickening (any itis)
6. Displacement (push or pull like a hernia)

I’ve found beginning residents/students remember pathology much better once they realize they’re looking for one of those six patterns.
What concepts changed the way you read studies?

We are a group of orthopedic surgeons who have been looking for a better way to digest orthopedic literature and make practice-changing evidence easier to find and interpret. The corpus of orthopedic literature is too large for anyone to properly synthesize when making clinical decisions. There has been some movement in this realm lately with advances in AI, but still nothing felt like a good one-stop hub for orthopedic surgery.

So over the past year my colleagues and I built something we felt like we needed: cortexorthopedics.com, which indexes the orthopedic literature, ranks papers on study design and methodological quality, and publishes evidence reports on surgical topics, each one structured and fully cited to PMIDs with direct quotes from the evidence within each citation.

- You can ask clinical/technical questions directly on the home page and get an answer instantly with direct citations from the literature. There are also sections for:

- Landmark Ortho Trials (foundational papers with structured interpretation)

- Recent Ortho Literature (a daily feed of newly published ortho literature, with interpretation and key findings)

- Evidence Report generator if you want to do a deep dive on a specific topic or question. And the evidence reports are rigorously and repeatedly verified against the primarily literature to make sure all the claims are supported and valid.

We are very interested to get feedback from anyone who tries it out. We've built out a paid tier for those who want access to the more rigorous evidence reports, but the main features are free for all users.

Hello all, i am fresh from uni.

I am interested in radiology internship, but before that i must do 9 months of internship in internal med, obgyn, peds, surgery departments as a rule in my country

Then i choose elective 3-4 months.

And im interested in radiology, any resources you guys recommend me to look and read from to get better?

Lets say i have less than average knowledge in radiology.

Thank you in advance, hope y'all have a great time.

I’ve recently had an MRI - scheduled not emergency - and there is clearly something showing in the exact area I’ve been experiencing pain. The report did not remark on this area of my abdomen. I circled the questionable area on multiple views and asked my doctor to review. He is a very skilled colorectal surgeon and hasn’t seen anything like this before. He is asking the diagnostic company for a re-read with a focus on this area.

I’m curious how often things are missed on imaging and how frequently do docs ask for re-reads of the imaging? Also, does it go back to the radiologist who wrote the original report or to the next available?

For all my techs out there who make their own markers at home… where are we getting the silicone molds from?