INVESTIGATION OF CHOICE

INVESTIGATION OF CHOICE(IOC) .......

All have been asked as MCQs before

1) For acoustic neuroma-----------------------gadolinium DTPA enhanced MRI

2) Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma----------CECT scan

3) Posterior fossa tumours------------------MRI

4) DVT--------------------------venous USG

5) Pulmonary embolism-----------------CT chest with contrast

6) Imaging of seminal vesicle and ejaculatory ducts------vasography > transrectal USG

7) Extraintestinal amoebiasis--------ELISA

8) Avascular necrosis--------------MRI

9) Interstitial lung disease------HRCT scan

10) Bronchiectasis------------HRCT scan

11) Osteoporosis---------DEXA scan(dual energy x-ray absorptiometry)

12) Acute ureteric colic--------non contrast spiral CT scan abdomen

13) Renal TB early stage-----IVP
    Late stage------CTscan

14) Localization of pheochromocytoma------MRI

15) Acute dissection of aorta-----transoesophageal ECHO

16) Chronic dissection of aorta(in stable patients)-----MRI

17) Congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis------USG

18) Extrahepatic biliary atresia-------peroperative cholangiogram

19) Discrete swelling(solitary nodule) of thyroid-----FNAC

20) Acute Subarachnoid haemorrhage(SAH)-----noncontrast CT HEAD

21) To localise site of bleed in SAH-----------4 vessel X-ray angiography