Pathology
This is the term used to refer to an incomplete or partial dislocation.
What is a subluxation?
This is the name of the position where the patient’s head is lower than the rest of the body when lying down in a stretcher or hospital bed.
What is trendelenburg?
For evaluation of proper oblique foot positioning, we should see equal joint space around this tarsal bone.
What is the cuboid?
This well-known name for a farmer's dog is a common (sometimes obnoxious) exclamation made by patients when their number is finally called from the waiting room
What is B.I.N.G.O.!!
When performing portable CXR imaging with a standard 6:1 grid on an average sized patient, this is the amount of kVp that should be used.
What is 120kVp?
Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is best visualized with this specialized lateral hip view.
What is the Dunn Lateral?
To obtain a diagnostic Pre-MRI orbits image, this anatomical feature must be positioned BELOW the lower orbital rim.
What are petrous ridges?
Ulnar deviation of the wrist, as well as a 30° tube cephalad tube angle, will help visualize this carpal bone which is a common area for fractures.
What is the scaphoid?
The suffix “pnea” refers to this.
What is breathing?
This view is used to assess a leg/length discrepancy.
What is a scanogram/orthroentgenogram/leg-length study?
This cervical spine routine view will best demonstrate a Jefferson’s fracture.
What is the odontoid/dens/peg view?
These specialized pelvic views, for which we oblique the patient approximately 45°, are most commonly used to rule out an acetabular fracture
What are Judet views?
This is the name of the snail-shaped anatomical feature within the inner ear which we can visualize on a temporal bones/Bonebridge CBCT. It is here where sound waves are transduced into electrical impulses.
What is the cochlea?
This is the name of the tube sometimes used in the ICU to prevent a patient from bleeding out due to hemorrhaging esophageal varices.
What is a Blakemore tube (Sengstaken-Blakemore tube)
This is the typical tube angle we use for an AP view of the coccyx.
What is 10 degrees caudad?
This is the term used to describe free air in the mediastinum.
What is a pneumomediastinum?
On a lateral knee view, if we see that the knee is rotated and we can visualize the adductor tubercle posterior to the distal femoral cortex, the patient is likely too far rotated in this direction
What is internal rotation?
Oblique C-spine views are the most effective views to demonstrate stenosis of this anatomical feature.
What are intervertebral foramina?
Codman Hackim and Medtronic Strata II are brand names for these instruments we commonly image.
No pressure...(hint)
What is a shunt valve?
These are the 6 views that should be included in a shunt series.
What are lateral skull, AP skull, PA Chest, Lateral Abdomen, Shunt Valve view
This pathology will be seen as a blood-fat line above the distal femur on a X-table lateral knee image, often resulting from a tibial-plateau fracture.
What is a lipohemarthrosis?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Where is the tip of this malpositioned PICC likely located?
This is the carpal bone that articulates with the pisiform.
What is the triquetrum?
In general radiography, recorded detail and sharpness are most affected by this change made on the x-ray console.
What is focal spot size?
These are 3 of the 4 reasons why we would perform a Dual Energy chest x-ray.
What are PICC placement, TB, rib #, and granulomatous disease? (all acceptable answers)