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CNS Ring-Enhancing Lesions - Immunocompromised vs Immunocompetent
Multiple Ring-Enhancing Lesions:
 • Toxoplasmosis (CD4 < 100)
 • Other
lymphoproliferative disease ... Syphilis • Pyogenic Abscess ... • Metastatic disease ... Inflammatory: ... diagnosis #causes #radiology
Causes of Acute Pelvic Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Non-Gynecologic:
• Genitourinary (Infection, Stone)
• Gastrointestinal (Appendicitis, Gastroenteritis, Diverticulitis,
• Tubo-ovarian abscess ... • Tubo-ovarian abscess ... * * • Pelvic inflammatory ... disease • Torsion
Causes of Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) - Differential Diagnosis
 • Infection: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, Abscess, Endocarditis,
tuberculosis, Abscess ... Non-infectious Inflammatory ... Diseases (e.g. ... onset Still's disease ... , Kikuchi disease
Back Pain - Differential Diagnosis
Primary Back Pathology:
 • Musculoligamentous injury (a.k.a. lumbosacral strain)
 • Spondylosis (i.e.
to metastatic disease ... Systemic Diseases ... Infection: Epidural abscess ... leukemia) • Inflammatory ... Pyelonephritis, Perinephric abscess
Hepatomegaly - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Malignant
 • Primary Carcinoma
 • Metastases
 • Lymphoma
 • Leukemia
 • Polycythemia
Hemochromatosis • Wilson's Disease ... Cholangitis • Abscess ... Schistosomiasis Inflammatory
MAGIC DR – a handy mnemonic used to remember the potential causes of a cerebral ring
Metastasis A – Abscess ... Demyelinating disease ... necrosis #Diagnosis #Radiology
Causes of Culture Negative Abscess - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Consider prior antibiotics as a cause of a
Culture Negative Abscess ... Non-Infectious Auto-Inflammatory ... Autoimmune: Crohn's disease ... Non-Infectious Auto-Inflammatory ... Culture #Negative #Abscess
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Fever, Whipple Disease ... • Inflammatory ... Aorta: • Infxn + Inflammatory ... , Cogan's Disease ... Diagnosis #Causes #cardiology
Etiologies of restrictive cardiomyopathy.
 - Noninfiltrative disorders 
 - Infiltrative disorders 
 - Storage diseases
disorders - Storage diseases ... Article (Open Access ... differential #diagnosis #cardiology
Etiologies of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
 - Genetic 
 - Storage diseases 
 - Neuromuscular and mitochondrial disorders
Genetic - Storage diseases ... Article (Open Access ... differential #diagnosis #cardiology