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A 51-year-old woman presented to our department with multiple episodes of massive haemoptysis. She had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis. High-resolution CT scan showed a completely destroyed right lung with fibrocavitatory changes (figure 1). CT pulmonary and bronchial angiography was performed, which showed non-enhancement of the right pulmonary artery in the pulmonary angiographic phase, leading to suspicion of a pulmonary arterial embolus (figure 2). The bronchial angiographic phase showed brilliant enhancement of the right pulmonary artery and its branches through reversed filling via multiple systemic collaterals arising …

Human rabies leads to a mortality of 55 000 deaths/year worldwide, out of which mortality in India is 20 000, hence is regarded as an endemic in the subcontinent. Even though rabies is definitively confirmed by the isolation of virus from biological samples or detection of the rabies antigen or antibodies, MRI of the brain may also be used as one of the modalities of investigation for the early detection of rabies. It is worthwhile to note that the imaging features of rabies encephalitis on diffusion-weighted imaging have not been described.1 ,2 The postmortem diagnosis of rabies is more sensitive and specific as …

A 22-year-old man, diagnosed 7 weeks before with pulmonary tuberculosis and started on antitubercular therapy, presented with non-exertional retrosternal chest pain since the past week. He was diagnosed on the strength of thoracic radiograms and CT imaging to have a mediastinal abscess, which was percutaneously drained. He was continued on the same regimen of drugs. Analysis of the fluid obtained was suggestive of tuberculous aetiology. Steroids were not required.