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Over the past few months I've had growing irritation at radiologists and neuroradiologists who misread images. Not only the unhelpful reads that list every category of disease, like 'inflammation or infection or trauma or vascular,' but just bad calls. I suppose what annoys me about this most of all is that for all these errors, radiologists will swear on a stack of bibles that no neurologist could ever hope to read a study (nor anyone in India or Ireland).
Here is one case that provoked some irritation. There are others in my own experience. How about you?
Case: young and confused with long track signs all over, no fever. Head CT showed frontal hypodensities. MRI read as c/w old trauma - totally wrong - it looked nothing like trauma (medial and lateral hyperintensities in frontal lobe). End result: viral encephalitis, type unknown.
Am I just crazy to be this annoyed? The academic year turned over, and I'm a freshly minted fellow now, but this stuff really got under my skin. I love it when the radiologist adds to a case, and brings another pair of eyes, but sadly this seems to be a rare event. Any other cases?
Here is one case that provoked some irritation. There are others in my own experience. How about you?
Case: young and confused with long track signs all over, no fever. Head CT showed frontal hypodensities. MRI read as c/w old trauma - totally wrong - it looked nothing like trauma (medial and lateral hyperintensities in frontal lobe). End result: viral encephalitis, type unknown.
Am I just crazy to be this annoyed? The academic year turned over, and I'm a freshly minted fellow now, but this stuff really got under my skin. I love it when the radiologist adds to a case, and brings another pair of eyes, but sadly this seems to be a rare event. Any other cases?