Internal Medicine

In any radiology department worldwide, around 60-70% of investigations deal with surgical cases: trauma, tumors, pre- and postsurgical assessment, surgical follow-ups, and more. In spite of that, radiology has a lot to offer in the ? eld of internal medicine in terms of establishing, con? rming, or rejecting diagnoses, or favoring differential diagnoses. Before I joined radiology, I worked as an internal physician for almost a year and almost another year and half as a general surgeon. This clinical experience leads me to look at radiological images with the eye of a radiologist and the mind of a clinician when I examine patient radiological images. I even take a history and do a clinical examination if I have the chance when the patient is in the ultrasound, CT, or MRI room. I have always believed that the radiologist's role is not con? ned to writing reports, but it can be broadened to establish the diagnosis in the ? rst hand in the same way as the clinician do. In the medical library, there are books dedicated to the clinical signs of internal medicine diseases; interestingly, there are no such books in the radiology library.

Gastroenterology. - Liver Cirrhosis. - Fatty Liver Disease (Liver Steatosis). - Recurrent Epigastric Pain. - Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. - Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage. - Neurology. - Stroke (Brain Infarction). - Stroke Diseases and Syndromes. - Intracranial Hemorrhage. - Meningitis. - Encephalitis. - Epilepsy. - Headache. - Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases. - Parkinsonism. - Dementia. - Huntington's Disease. - Heat Stroke (Pancerebellar Syndrome). - Pulmonology. - Pleural Diseases. - Alveolar Lung Diseases. - Atelectasis (Lung Collapse). - Sarcoidosis. - Emphysema. - Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias. - Histiocytoses. - Hemoptysis. - Cardiology. - Acute Chest Pain. - Diseases of the Great Vessels. - Myocardial Diseases (Cardiomyopathies). - Endocarditis. - Pericardial Diseases. - Nephrology. - Hypertension. - Polycystic Kidney Disease. - Endocrinology and Metabolism. - Grave's Disease (Hyperthyroidism). - Hyperparathyroidism. - Growth Hormone Diseases. - Osteoporosis. - Rickets and Osteomalacia. - Scurvy. - Fluorosis. - Lead Poisoning (Plumbism). - Adrenal Glands Abnormalities. - Sex Hormones Abnormalities. - Sheehan Syndrome (Postpartum Hypopituitarism). - Rheumatology. - Rheumatoid Arthritis. - Ankylosing Spondylitis (Marie Strümpell Disease). - Gout Arthritis. - CPPD and HADD. - Osteoarthritis. - Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis. - Baastrup's Disease (Spinout Process Impingement Syndrome). - Scheuermann's Disease (Juvenile Kyphosis Dorsalis). - Sjögren Syndrome (Myoepithelial Sialadenitis). - Behçet Disease. - Sharp Syndrome (Mixed Connective Tissue Disease). - Hematology. - Hemosiderosis and Hemochromatosis. - ? -Thalassemia Major (Cooley's Anemia). - Sickle Cell Disease. - Pernicious Anemia. - Hemophilia. - Lymphomas. - Leukemia. - Multiple Myeloma (Khaler's Disease). - Amyloidosis. - Evans' Syndrome. - OtherLymphatic Disorders. - Dermatology. - Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis). - Lipoid Proteinosis (Urbach-Weithe Disease). - Dermatomyositis. - Ochronosis (Alkaptonuria). - Diabetology. - Diabetic Hand and Diabetic Foot. - Diabetic Brain and Nervous System. - Diabetic Syndromes. - Diabetes Insipidus. - Obesity, Gastric Banding, and Liposuction. - Lipoatrophic Lipodystrophic Syndromes. - Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. - Fever. - Giardiasis. - Amebiasis. - Leprosy (Hansen Disease). - Toxoplasmosis. - Brucellosis (Malta Fever). - Neurocysticercosis. - Ascariasis. - Guinea Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis). - Hydatid Cyst (Echinococcosis). - Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosoma). - Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis). - Tuberculosis. - Typhoid Fever (Salmonellosis). - Malaria. - Animal Bites and Stings.