Questions

What is the most common mechanism for cervical spine fractures? 

What is fractured in a clay shoveler's fracture? 

A true diverticulum is... 

Which of the following is an example of a true diverticulum? 

Which of the following features does NOT suggest a complication of colonic diverticulosis?

Patients from Asia have an increased incidence of colonic diverticula in which part of the bowel compared to Caucasians? 

Which of the following features is most concerning that a segment of thickened large bowel with associated diverticula represents a colorectal carcinoma?

In pancreatic trauma, what proportion of cases are associated with a raised serum amylase or lipase?

In pancreatic trauma, any injury to the pancreatic duct constitutes at least what American Association for the Surgery in Trauma (AAST) grade? 

Following blunt pancreatic trauma, which of these is a late complication?

In pancreatic trauma, a CT showing distal laceration or parenchymal injury with duct injury constitutes which American Association for the Surgery in Trauma (AAST) grade?

Regarding pancreatic trauma, which statement regarding incidence and complication is most true?

What mechanism of injury typically results in a Chance fracture?

At which of the following vertebral levels would you most likely find a Chance fracture?

At which of the following vertebral levels would you encounter a Jefferson fracture?

At which of the following vertebral levels would you encounter a hangman's fracture?

At which of the following vertebral levels would you most likely find a clay-shoveler fracture?

What is meant on imaging of the brain by the term "Kernohan notch phenomenon"?

What is the most common cause of a cauda equina syndrome?

What is the best imaging modality for assessing a patient with suspected cauda equina syndrome?