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brain metastases are not good

Here’s an image below showing serial MRI slices through the brain of patient I saw today who was admitted to our hospital for several months of headache and recent onset weakness:

Each one of those little white dots (numbering over 20-30 in total) is a suspected brain metastasis (try clicking on the image to blow it [...]

aortic dissection

This is an 82 yr old woman I saw in the ER today.  Came in for an ingrown pubic hair–of all things–and received a cautionary chest x-ray just as she was heading out the door (long story) and was incidentally found to have a widened mediastinum (one of the things to look for on a chest [...]