Showing posts with label January 27. Show all posts
Showing posts with label January 27. Show all posts

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.