animal and animal produce inspired signs


endosteal scalloping
Developmental Venous Anomaly
Meningeom
Gicht
Rheumatoide Arthritis
Sarkoidose
Silikose
omental cake
Sigmavolvulus
Ureterozele
Morbus Wilson
butterfly glioma
Osteoporose
vegetable and plant inspired signs
xanthogranulomatöse Pyelonephritis
Dissektion
Honigwabenlunge
Caput medusae
vierter Ventrikel
water bottle sign
inanimate object inspired signs
fish vertebra
erosive Arthrose
Möwenschwingendeformität
bull's eye sign
eye of tiger sign
fruit inspired signs
Joubert-Syndrom
Nierenausgussstein
Eierschalenverkalkungen
Neurodegeneration mit Eisenablagerung im Gehirn
scalloping Wirbelkörper
sausage digit
Dural-Tail-Zeichen
panda sign
anteater's nose sign
head cheese sign
Schwanenhalsdeformität
pleural mouse
feline oesophagus
pulmonary opacity
cobra head sign
Papillennekrose der Niere
lobster claw sign
bear's paw sign
Zyklopsläsion
beak sign
bird-beak sign
fishtail deformity
szirrhöses Magenkarzinom
scotty dog sign
mesenteric hamburger sign
gastrointestinal scleroderma
hidebound sign
rat tail sign
Developmental Venous Anomaly
Meningeom
Gicht
Rheumatoide Arthritis
Sarkoidose
Silikose
omental cake
Sigmavolvulus
Ureterozele
Morbus Wilson
butterfly glioma
Osteoporose
vegetable and plant inspired signs
xanthogranulomatöse Pyelonephritis
Dissektion
Honigwabenlunge
Caput medusae
vierter Ventrikel
water bottle sign
inanimate object inspired signs
fish vertebra
erosive Arthrose
Möwenschwingendeformität
bull's eye sign
eye of tiger sign
fruit inspired signs
Joubert-Syndrom
Nierenausgussstein
Eierschalenverkalkungen
Neurodegeneration mit Eisenablagerung im Gehirn
scalloping Wirbelkörper
sausage digit
Dural-Tail-Zeichen
panda sign
anteater's nose sign
head cheese sign
Schwanenhalsdeformität
pleural mouse
feline oesophagus
pulmonary opacity
cobra head sign
Papillennekrose der Niere
lobster claw sign
bear's paw sign
Zyklopsläsion
beak sign
bird-beak sign
fishtail deformity
szirrhöses Magenkarzinom
scotty dog sign
mesenteric hamburger sign
gastrointestinal scleroderma
hidebound sign
rat tail sign
Animal and animal produce inspired signs may sound a little silly, but the radiology literature is replete with such signs, some more fanciful than others.
Fish and marine life
- cluster of black pearls sign
- endosteal scalloping: medullary cavity masses, e.g. multiple myeloma
- fish vertebra (also known as codfish vertebra): biconcave vertebrae as seen in osteoporosis
- fishtail deformity of the elbow: due to abnormal trochlear ossification following a distal humeral fracture in childhood
- fishtail pancreas: rare anatomic variant of the pancreas
- lobster claw sign of papillary necrosis
- manta ray sign of bladder exstrophy
- scallop sign of rheumatoid arthritis
- vertebral scalloping: may be anterior or posterior border
- turtleback sign (liver)
Birds
- bird beak sign of achalasia (also known as rat tail sign)
- beak sign of arterial dissection or of sigmoid volvulus
- eggshell calcification of silicosis and occasionally sarcoidosis
- gull wing appearance of erosive osteoarthritis
- hummingbird sign or penguin sign
- owl-eyes sign of anterior spinal cord infarction etc.
- pooping duck sign of triquetral fracture
- swan neck deformity of rheumatoid arthritis
- winking owl sign
Mammals
- anteater nose sign of calcaneonavicular coalition
- bat's wing
- pulmonary opacities, e.g. in alveolar edema
- 4ventricle (Joubert anomaly and related syndromes)
- bear's paw sign: xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
- beaver tail liver
- Brahma bull sign: femoral neck osteochondroma
- buffalo chest: bilateral pneumothoraces due to abnormal communication between the pleural spaces
- bull's eye: evoked in the mind's eye by many a pathology
- bunny waveform sign: Doppler waveform in subclavian steal syndrome
- dog ear sign: fluid/blood in pelvic peritoneal recess
- dural tail: of meningioma and several other dura-based lesions
- ears of the lynx sign: hereditary spastic paraplegia
- eye of tiger sign: classical of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome
- feline esophagus: horizontal striations seen on barium swallows as a variant of normal
- giraffe sign
- hidebound sign of gastrointestinal scleroderma
- ivory vertebra sign
- joint mouse: intra-articular loose body resulting from osteochondritis dissecans
- leather bottle stomach: of linitis plastica
- leopard skin sign or tigroid pattern
- moose head appearance of corpus callosal dysgenesis
- panda sign
- of the midbrain in Wilson disease
- of sarcoidosis
- piglet sign of osmotic demyelination
- pleural mouse
- raccoon eyes sign
- rat bite erosions of gout
- rat tail sign of arterial dissection or of achalasia (also known as bird-beak sign)
- Scottie dog sign
- Snoopy sign
- staghorn calculus: struvite renal calculi
- tigroid pattern or leopard skin sign
- winking owl sign
- zebra sign: remote cerebellar hemorrhage
- zebra stripe sign: osteogenesis imperfecta
Arthropods
- abdominal cocoon: encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis
- butterfly fracture
- butterfly glioma: glioma crossing midline to the contralateral hemisphere
- butterfly shape of the grey matter of the spinal cord
- butterfly vertebra
- caterpillar sign: of pyloric stenosis
- spider web: intrahepatic veins in hepatic venous outflow obstruction
Reptiles
- cobra head sign of ureterocele
- snake-eye appearance: pathology of anterior horns of cervical grey matter
- snake eyes
- appearance of the facial canal in the petrous temporal bone
- alternative name for owl-eyes sign of spinal cord infarction
- snake sign (or serpent sign)
- turtleback sign (schistosomiasis)
Micro-organisms
- plankton sign: diagnostic on ultrasound of an exudative pleural effusion
Mythical creatures
- cyclops lesion: usually post-ACL repair
- medusa head
- of a developmental venous anomaly (DVA)
- also a sign of severe portal hypertension (i.e. caput medusae)
- Shmoo sign: left ventricular enlargement
Animal product foods
- cervical hamburger sign: normal cervical facet joints on axial CT
- head cheese sign of hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- honeycomb lung of UIP/pulmonary fibrosis
- ice cream cone sign of the middle ear ossicles
- ice cream cone sign of vestibular schwannoma
- mesenteric hamburger sign (also called sandwich sign): mesenteric nodal mass
- omental cake: metastases to omentum
- sausage digit: underlying inflammatory arthritis or dactylitis
- water bottle sign: massive pericardial effusion
Siehe auch:
- endosteal scalloping
- Developmental Venous Anomaly
- Meningeom
- Gicht
- Rheumatoide Arthritis
- Sarkoidose
- Silikose
- omental cake
- Sigmavolvulus
- Ureterozele
- Morbus Wilson
- butterfly glioma
- Osteoporose
- vegetable and plant inspired signs
- xanthogranulomatöse Pyelonephritis
- Dissektion
- Honigwabenlunge
- Caput medusae
- vierter Ventrikel
- water bottle sign
- inanimate object inspired signs
- fish vertebra
- erosive Arthrose
- Möwenschwingendeformität
- bull's eye sign
- eye of tiger sign
- fruit inspired signs
- Joubert-Syndrom
- Nierenausgussstein
- Eierschalenverkalkungen
- Neurodegeneration mit Eisenablagerung im Gehirn
- scalloping Wirbelkörper
- sausage digit
- Dural-Tail-Zeichen
- panda sign
- anteater's nose sign
- head cheese sign
- Schwanenhalsdeformität
- pleural mouse
- feline oesophagus
- pulmonary opacity
- cobra head sign
- Papillennekrose der Niere
- lobster claw sign
- bear's paw sign
- Zyklopsläsion
- beak sign
- bird-beak sign
- fishtail deformity
- szirrhöses Magenkarzinom
- scotty dog sign
- mesenteric hamburger sign
- gastrointestinal scleroderma
- hidebound sign
- rat tail sign
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