Medical photos

People always seem fascinated by the medical photos. Why? Could be the images take us into a place we don't normally see.

Or we are fascinated with the body. Or we cannot believe the reality of what can happen to a person when sick.

Or it is just cool to see humans in picture form - in cat scan form - with stuff that is hard to imagine for healthy people.

Take our friend up above. He is likely a smoker. The pure black areas are his lungs. On the right side of the picture there is a big gray mass taking up a large portion of the lung. That is a lung cancer.

This is not a non smoking blog but it couldn't hurt to quit--right now! Please.


Brain tumors tend to scare us - a lot.
And with pretty good reason. The brain does not like to be messed with in terms of pushing, crowding, pressure, anything. Our next patient has a problem most people can see without my explanation. It is a large white mass in the center of his brain.



Here is another view of the same patient. Believe it or not, there is really not much pain - rather brain functions start going haywire and that is what brings it to our attention.

Poor balance, forgetting, falling, personality changes, weakness in an arm, seizure, so many things could happen here.





Thought I'd change it up a little and come down the body to the pelvis. Male pelvis. See those dark spots? That outline is the prostate. And those dark spots are tiny metal radioactive seeds that we put in there to kill the cancer cells in the prostate.

Mighty effective treatment. Outpatient procedure and in the right person is 85-90% curative. .

Hope you learned a little and thought my little medical venture was fun or fascinating or whatever f word is appropriate.