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Imaging of Uncommon GI/GU Disorders Case 4

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Next patient 16 is

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looking at the time. Okay, we have some good good amount of time left 68

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year old female elevated liver function tests. We love

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that history right get that all the time.

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So so an MRI.

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Some example Doppler features identify fmd. So,

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you know with the areas of renal with the areas of narrowing you're

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going to see evidence of renal arteries stenosis of elevated velocities.

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There may be a little bit of tardis Harvest waveforms more distally and

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if you're lucky on both the color and the grace called maybe

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you see that lumpy bumpy appearance typically with renal artery stenosis. So

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you'll see it in approximal portion. So if you see evidence of that

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but in the mid portion in a young patient and and particularly

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young female patient, you may bring up

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the possibility of fmd and usually that's it and they'll get a CT or

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an MRI has the next Imaging step.

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Okay, so let's look at some cases this case

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here elevator lft 60 atrial female.

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T2 weighted image

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it's always a lot to look at these abdomen cases, but

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We have elevated lft's history. Perhaps they can narrow.

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What you want to look at look at the coronal t2s as well?

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So people are starting to chime in the chat box. I'll have a look at that in a

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second while I go through this case for the group.

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What a group to 252 participants right

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now my goodness.

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253 we just got a new one. That's awesome. So let's look at

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the let's get teach you fats at I suppose that's always useful

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thing to look at.

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Maybe that helps you.

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Maybe you already know the answer.

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Maybe a T1 and let's just look at one of the post

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contrast sequences a lot of people in the chat box. So I got a sense people know the

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answer here.

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That's good.

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You know my goal here is is never to stump the group. It's

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just to share some interesting cases. And so what I like it when

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everyone gets the right answer.

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Okay, let's scroll through enough sequences for now.

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and let me just

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look at the chat box. Okay, here we go. Let's go. Oh my goodness.

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Everyone's saying the same thing, huh?

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So CBD strictures, so I think that's a

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good thought because you all the doctoral dilatation and some people have said the

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same thing.

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over and over and over

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Yeah at spelling is tough though. I gotta look up the spelling every

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single time. I do it. That's hopefully this belt I

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have in my PowerPoint is correct that you

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guys are that that's someone someone took back their answer. Now this

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referred to me. Okay, I'll buy that in the interest of time. And so

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this is yeah, if anyone you know

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has trained alongside me with me

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will know that for some

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reason I really like this because I like the name Richie. It's a

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nice little name a couple of Z's in there. And so here we have a big

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Stone really impacted in that gallbladder neck, but what's

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amazing is that look what it's doing to it's in certain, you know, right at

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that insertion of the cystic duct in the common hepatic type

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is really having the Mass Effect here in almost and quite a

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bit of upstream bilary reductal dilatation. And what's

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interesting is well in this case I think is that you know,

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if you looked at it patient happens to have colathysis more

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distally so happens to actually have a CBD Stone but that

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seems to be reasonably okay causing maybe

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a little bit of prominence really bulk of

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this is happening by this really massive stone at the gallbladder neck

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causing common a paddock obstruction is

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a bunch of gallstones in there as well. There's a bunch of other findings in the liver

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and sweet that

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and let's

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see the chat box. Yep. Perfect. And so let's look at let's

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learn a little bit about this. This is I anticipated

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a quicker case.

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And you guys nailed it?

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So, you know, it's an impacted Stone either in

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the cystic doctor, you know, maybe I should read write that

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really the gallbladder neck area as well and causes extrinsic Mass Effect

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on the common hepatic duct result in

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dilatation of the intrapatic duct. So right there, is that key image in this

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here as well showing the intraumatic double rotation. I wish our MRCP showed

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this in one image. It doesn't quite do that which is

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why I didn't show you that image, but

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Turns out that your group didn't need it.

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And segment 6 actually that was a Hemangioma. And

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so this right over here incidentally and the

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reason you know, if you look at the t2 signals not quite as

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bright as CSF, but it's relatively benign T2 signal

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and as I go

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Back here. I can just show you and to be fair. I didn't

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really show you a lot of the post contrast sequences. You can see it's sort of has that peripheral

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discontinuous nodule or enhancement fills in

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so that's going to be a Hemangioma there.

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Faculty

Mahan Mathur, MD

Associate Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Vice-Chair of Education & Director of Medical Student Education in Radiology

Yale School of Medicine

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Other Biliary

MRI

Gastrointestinal (GI)

Gallbladder