African College of Ultrasound

AFCUSS is a professional training institution established in 2015.

[Dr. Dunn A @Dunnverah]

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75-year-old male presents with abdominal pain, significant weight loss, and right upper quadrant tenderness.

Grayscale ultrasound shows the liver studded with multiple hypoechoic nodules scattered throughout both lobes — classic appearance of diffuse hepatic metastases.

[African College of Ultrasound @_afcuss]

@Dunnverah The most likely diagnosis in the clinical and sonographic scenarios is metastasis of the liver.

[African College of Ultrasound @_afcuss]

🚨 THE NAME HAS CHANGED… AND SO HAS THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND THE CONDITION 🚨

For years, the world has known it as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

But medicine is evolving.

The condition is now being referred to as:

“Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS)”

[RadiographyNG☢️ @RadiographyNG]

Quick tips for scrotal ultrasound scan

1.Before you scan take history & palpate scrotal contents
2. Linear probe should be used
Patient supine
3.Penis placed on anterior abdominal wall
4. Towel under scrotum for support
5. Upright position or Valsalva for varicocele assessment

[Bruno Natuhwera @BrunoNatuhwera]

Elderly with chest pain and DIB.
Scan in the RUQ. What do we have here and what are the common causes?

[African College of Ultrasound @_afcuss]

Part 2

This week, sonographer @nayeema_dewere from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 shared a well presented educational clip on the different locations of uterine leiomyomas, commonly known as fibroids.

Thank you for sharing

#Ultrasound #Sonography #GynaecologyUltrasound #Fibroids

[African College of Ultrasound @_afcuss]

Part 1

This week, sonographer @nayeema_dewere from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 shared a well presented educational clip on the different locations of uterine myomas.

Thank you for sharing

#Ultrasound #Sonography #GynaecologyUltrasound #Fibroids

[RadiographyNG☢️ @RadiographyNG]

A 32 year old multigravida in her third trimester presents with a midline abdominal bulge that becomes more prominent on coughing.
Abdominal ultrasound scan shows widening of the linea alba with separation of the rectus abdominis muscles.

What is the most likely diagnosis?

[RadiographyNG☢️ @RadiographyNG]

A 42 year old patient presents with recurrent right upper quadrant pain after meals.

Ultrasound shows posterior acoustic shadowing from the gall bladder.

What classic ultrasound sign is demonstrated?

[African College of Ultrasound @_afcuss]

This weeks case is from Dr Ossai from Nigeria 🇳🇬

This cine loop demonstrates a markedly abnormal fetal four-chamber view with a large common atrial chamber and complete absence of the normal atrial septum.

[RadiographyNG☢️ @RadiographyNG]

A 42 year old male presents with abdominal trauma.
USS reveals free fluid collecting in the space between the liver & right kidney.

What is another name for this space?
a. Posterior right subhepatic space
b. Anterior cul-de-sac
c. Posterior cul-de-sac
d. Morrison's pouch

[A.N Moh’d, ☢️🩺 @Janburji1]

Routine Obstetric scan at 19 weeks pregnancy.

This woman saying doctor how’s my baby?

What’s your diagnosis?

[ChroRadGirlie @ChroRadGirlie]

Ultrasound exams will be like.

Spot diagnosis:

A. Secondary to Amenorrhoea
B. Secretory phase endometrial appearance
C. Early pregnancy.
D. Non of the above.

[Joaquín Martínez @JMMR83]

Lesión mamaria intraductal.

[ABCDEcografía @ABCDEcografia]

Beware of respiratory variations in the spectral recording of the portal vein Doppler...🚨

[ABCDEcografía @ABCDEcografia]

A 23 yo female patient underwent mitral valve replacement surgery. Twelve hours after being extubated and weaned from mechanical ventilation, the nasogastric tube was also removed. While stable, she began experiencing nausea, a tendency towards bradycardia, and hypotension…

[African College of Ultrasound @_afcuss]

This was case is from Prof. Dr. Dirk André Clevert, MHBA

A 34-year-old male with a history of infertility underwent testicular contrast-enhanced ultrasound examination.
What do you see? What is your diagnosis?

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[Manavendra Upadhyaya,MD @ManavendraUpad1]

Coomb sign in Crohns Disease.
Case credit @HariRan16813160

[RadiographyNG☢️ @RadiographyNG]

What is type of gestation is this?
How do you describe based on the number of chorion and amnion seen?

[NephroPOCUS @NephroP]

#POCUS quiz:
What are 1️⃣ - 8️⃣❓
#FOAMed #Nephpearls
(📷 Radiology key/General and Vascular Ultrasound textbook)