A 43-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department after an injury to his left knee while playing rugby. He explained in detail how he became wedged between two players resulting in his left knee bending the wrong way until his toes were touching his groin. On the pitch, he returned his lower leg back to a more normal position. On examination, his knee was grossly swollen but not deformed....

A 75-year-old male with a history of hypertension and diabetes presented with severe, progressive low back pain over the past 6 months after a fall. His examination was significant for tenderness to his lower back bilaterally, no abdominal tenderness, and a normal neurovascular exam. His vital signs were stable with a blood pressure of 168/97. A radiograph of his lumbar spine was obtained showi...

A comprehensive all-inclusive resource on plain radiograph in neonatal intestinal obstruction is presented. This is an attempt to develop a protocol and to regain expertise in evaluating a plain radiograph that most often yields more than enough clues to diagnose and to decide a plan of action.

Image features pertinent to weld defect detection and identification are extracted from a digitised radiograph image of the weld. These image features form the set of visual evidence which is brought to bear upon a set of possible defect hypotheses. The Dempster-Shafer theory is applied to combine these visual evidence and obtain a belief interval for each of the defect hypotheses. The system i...

INTRODUCTION Due to the universal shortage of radiologists, medical officers are largely responsible for acute trauma radiograph reporting in public sector healthcare facilities in well-resourced countries. In poorly-resourced countries, a shortage of medical officers results in most acute trauma radiographs being unreported. In the European Union (EU), experienced radiographers with no specifi...