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01-06-2014 | Minisymposium
Satisfactions and frustrations of a volunteer tele-reader for the World Federation of Pediatric Imaging
Published in: Pediatric Radiology | Issue 6/2014
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I first got involved with the World Federation of Pediatric Imaging (WFPI) in August 2012 through its outreach program. Just a few weeks after the first e-mail contact I was reading pediatric radiographs from Khayelitsha Hospital in South Africa. Images were sent as JPEG files through e-mail by a local radiographer (WFPI now uses a DICOM server). I got to report about 15 radiographs a month. The pathology varied, including pneumonias, congenital heart disease and trauma (Fig. 1). Because the hospital has no radiologist, my e-mailed reports were forwarded to the referring clinicians.
Fig. 1
Patellar sleeve avulsion in an 11-year-old boy from South Africa who had a painful knee after a fall from a height. Lateral shoot-through right knee radiograph, reviewed as normal by the local emergency clinician. The radiograph shows the patella situated more superior than expected. That is associated with buckling of the quadriceps tendon, a suprapatellar joint effusion, and a faint V-shape density along the expected position of the inferior patellar pole. Following the WFPI read of patellar sleeve avulsion the patient was referred to a tertiary hospital and treated in an orthopedics department
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