Just wondering what other MTs think. I have always used (but my experience started with handwritten notes in handwritten charts) "9:00 position" or "12:00 position" but I've been corrected several times to "9-o'clock position." To me, this looks "funny." What do other MTs think? ...
Elderly patient brought in to ED for eval of chest pain and seen by GI doc.
Cardiac evaluation was negative and Dr. XXX xxx, his gastroenterologist thought his symptoms were related to gallstones noted on be s/l "GV" ultrasound.
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Ultrasound showed small echogenic ____ s/l non-shedding focus. Differential diagnosis was polyp versus _____ s/l timif active sludge, but there is no _____ sl/l shedding calculus. (Her shedding sounds like sharing). ...
Multiple gray-scale and color flow images of the __________ were performed
The __________ appears slightly prominent with a length of approximately 2 cm.
Sounds like she is saying "pillars".
HUH???? ...
This patient's food poisoning turned out to be a surprise pregnancy! She undergoes an ultrasound, and doc says: "Ultrasound indicated an intrauterine pregnancy with s/l something something blinks consistent with a fetus 9 weeks 2 days." I'm wondering if "s/l blinks" thing is something to do with the ultrasound machine itself. Does it emit blinks? Bliips? Still don't know what the something something is. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. ...
History on patient: multinodular goiter and thyroid nodule.
Ultrasound scan reveals diffuse heterogenous A with multiple slightly (s/l) hyperchloic hyperechoic nodular area.
Not used to ultrasound terms. I usually just do geri evals and H&Ps for a nursing home. ...
The corticomedullary differentiation appears maintained, though, please keep in mind that the (___) secondary to patient body habitus.
1. corticomedually is it spelled correctly or is it cortico-medullary?
2. should there be a comma before and after , thought,?
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Good afternoon. Here is the sentence. I cannot find a model number Reflex II, so is this some kind of procedure where the mammography goes "to" this Reichert Reflex screen maybe?
For breast mass, we will order her mammogram with diagnostic bilateral Reflex "2" ultrasound ...
#1: I wanted to know if this sounds like the correct phrase?
"EXAM: Renal ultrasound.
HISTORY: (S/l "Focal"?) destructive BPH.
TECHNIQUE: Multiple images were taken of both kidneys and the bladder."
#2: In the same report, I see under findings that it says right after dictating the size of the kidneys: "No other (?) noted." Would that be "No other deficits noted" ?
#3: Should the word be just typed as "symmetric" or "symmetrical"? I think symmetrical sounds better but wa ...
In pelvic ultrasound, doc says color flow _____ images. s/l "secular" but I'm wondering if it is "sector" Also same word in venous Doppler. Any ideas? Thanks ...
Dr. is reviewing a CT scan of an ankle fracture and refers to a "kissing cyst suggestive of early degenerative change in the very anterior corner of the joint." I know I have heard of this term before, just wanted a second opinion is all to make sure I am correct. ...
Noncontrast CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis showed no hydronephrosis or ureteral calculi. Prominence in the s/l biatrial calisase thought to reflect a peripelvic cyst. ...
I am transcribing an evaluation of a rotator cuff injury. The physician is going over what a CT and ultrasound of the shoulder showed, and says "moderate sized (indushunction?) ganglion cyst (bursa?, versus?) tendinosis within the infraspinatus." I can't figure out what she is saying! I have reasearched and reasearched and I am still not coming up with anything. Any help would be appreciated!!
** whatever the word is before ganglion cyst, I am pretty sure it is refer ...
In my Stedman's Plastic Surgery Words book, it is spelled tricholemmal, but the physician and other references spell it trichilemmal. Does anyone know the correct spelling? Thanks! ...