Imaging
Those who care for patients with pulmonary, critical care or sleep disorders rely heavily on chest radiology and pathology to determine diagnoses. The Southwest Journal of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep publishes case-based articles with characteristic chest imaging and related pathology.
The editor of this section will oversee and coordinate the publication of a core of the most important chest imaging topics. In doing so, they encourage the submission of unsolicited manuscripts. It cannot be overemphasized that both radiologic and pathologic images must be of excellent quality. As a rule, 600 DPI is sufficient for radiographic and pathologic images. Taking pictures of plain chest radiographs and CT scans with a digital camera is strongly discouraged. The figures should be cited in the text and numbered consecutively. The stain used for pathology specimens and magnification should be mentioned in the figure legend. Those who care for patients with pulmonary, critical care or sleep disorders rely heavily on chest radiology and pathology to determine diagnoses. The Southwest Journal of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep publishes case-based articles with characteristic chest imaging and related pathology. The editor of this section will oversee and coordinate the publication of a core of the most important chest imaging topics. In doing so, they encourage the submission of unsolicited manuscripts. It cannot be overemphasized that both radiologic and pathologic images must be of excellent quality. As a rule, 600 DPI is sufficient for radiographic and pathologic images. Taking pictures of plain chest radiographs and CT scans with a digital camera is strongly discouraged. The figures should be cited in the text and numbered consecutively. The stain used for pathology specimens and magnification should be mentioned in the figure legend.
Medical Image of the Week: Cervical Fracture and Dislocation
Figure 1. Panel A: Computerized tomography (CT) scan of the neck showing C5-C6 fracture and dislocation (arrow). Panel B: Accompanying magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the neck.
A 25 year old woman was a restrained driver in a rollover motor vehicle accident (MVA) and suffered a C5-C6 fracture-dislocation with spinal cord injury (Figure 1). She developed neurogenic stunned myocardium, symptomatic bradycardia and neurogenic shock. Her cardiac ultrasound has been previously presented and can be viewed by clicking here. After developing the adult respiratory distress syndrome and multi-system organ failure she had multiple cardiac arrests and died after 5 days in the intensive care unit.
Evan D. Schmitz, MD
Richland, Washington
Reference as: Schmitz ED. Medical image of the week: cervical fracture and dislocation. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care. 2014;8(4):204. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc030-14 PDF