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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Nuggets for January 27

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but it's great inside! Here are a few tidbits of information on the stuff that's happening in my world from the internet and the blogosphere. Enjoy your day whatever the weather!

I ran into this interesting article about PTSD and smoking cessation on Yahoo!News in the Health section.

We don't run into this too often, but Brown-Sequard syndrome is a spinal cord injury that appears every so often on our unit.

It's interesting to read radiology reports on patients, but sometimes, I just have to look all over to figure out what's going on. Here are a few interesting items I've come across lately.

Since I couldn't figure out the acronym, I just went searching and I found out what exactly
IPMN tumors are from this article.

Finally, I found this great Google book on CT scans while I was looking up the definition of punctate cysts at www.m-w.com which now has a medical definitions section you can choose when looking up a word used in medical terminology.