Re: Amazing case!
From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net)
Wed Nov 12 11:14:59 2003
I may have missed this on earlier posts but what was the reasoning for
getting the MRI in the first place?
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 07:18 AM, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
> Yeah - worm -like! :)
>
>> At Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
>>
>> Digital phantoms?
>>
>> --
>> Richard Chudacoff, MD
>>
>> The world is governed by very different personages from
>> what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
>> Benjamin Disraeli
>>
>> A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
>> Benjamin Disraeli
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net]On Behalf Of
>> Efrain
>> Ramirez
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:21 AM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>> Subject: Re: Amazing case!
>>
>> Late answer - but - amazing indeed - agree with members - one point
>> that
>> stands out - don't trust MRI's for clinical decisions - at least on
>> OB-Gyn -I have seen some case for evaluation of "adnexal mass" on an
>> MRI
>> sent by another MD - just to found to vanish within my fingers on a
>> pelvic examn and not to be found on ultrasounds -
>>
>>> At Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Lynn Montgomery, M.D. wrote:
>>>
>>> Listers,
>>> Lets just say that this is a hypothetical:
>>>
>>> Patient at 26 weeks gestation with five previous cesarean sections -
>>> two
>>> of them classical. Presents with low abdominal pain. MRI shows
>>> what is
>>> interpreted as "thinning of the lower uterine segment with apparent
>>> protrusion of the amniotic membranes through the segment". No
>>> contractions, ongoing pain, no fetal issues.
>>>
>>> What would you do? You can't offend me cause it is only a
>>> hypothetical
>>> and not my hypothetical...
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.
>>> Rocky Mountain Women's Health
>>> Missoula, Montana
>>>
>>> The information provided here is only an opinion and does not
>>> constitute
>> the establishment of a patient-physician relationship. As with any
>> medical
>> problem, should you feel that you have a significant problem it is
>> incumbent
>> upon you to seek the appropriate medical care. I hope that you will
>> understand that I cannot respond to individual e-mails directed to me.
>>>
>> --
>> "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
>> But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound
>> truth."
>>
>> Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
>>
>
> --
> "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
> But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound
> truth."
>
> Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
>
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