2024 Honorable Mentions
Welcome to SonoProps 2nd yearly honorable mentions! Again, the deadline for responses is December 31st. The person with the highest number of correct answers who sent their answers in first will get a prize! The question is BELOW the images.
Now with answers!

01
What is the diagnosis and what action can this patient not perform?
Answer: LEFT knee quadriceps tendon rupture. Knee extension.

02-A
What finding is demonstrated here?

02-B
What finding is demonstrated here?
Answer: Mild-to-Moderate Hydronephrosis

03
What is the ultrasound diagnosis?
Answer: Right complex pleural effusion

04
What is the etiology of this finding?
Answer: Perforated viscus is the etiology of this finding. The finding is A-lines the abdomen that displace with pressure, “Scissors Maneuver,” indicating free air.

05
What is the etiology of the finding for this patient?
Answer: Acute pancreatitis - there is trace free fluid between the splenorenal space with inflammatory changes.

06
What is the underlying diagnosis for this patient?
Marfan’s syndrome - this patient has a significantly dilated aortic root, a floppy mitral valve, and elongated heart indicative of Marfan’s Syndrome.

07A
What is the structure?
Answer: Abdominal wall lymph node (in a patient with lymphoma). Remember, if it’s not an abscess or a cyst, consider lymph nodes, especially when there is central flow.

07B
What is the structure?
Answer: Abdominal wall lymph node (in a patient with lymphoma). Remember, if it’s not an abscess or a cyst, consider lymph nodes, especially when there is central flow.

08
What is the most likely diagnosis for this patient?
Answer: Diminished lung sliding with B-lines, pneumonia.

09
What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Retinal detachment

10
What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Distinct from above, this is a retinal hole.

11
What is the finding?
Answer: IUD - there is a hyperechoic linear structure present within the uterus causing a slight reverberation artifact.

12
What is the diagnosis and what does this patient require?
Answer: Large clots within the vaginal canal. Note how the cervix is closed and the uterus is empty, but there is a heterogeneous mass within the vaginal canal. This patient required manual extraction of the clots.

13
What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Left anterior shoulder dislocation

14
What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Right IJ Thrombus/DVT

15
What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Vitreous detachment