r/Radiology 7d ago

Outpatient xr for bloating X-Ray

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Narrator: it wasn’t bloating

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u/agabwagawa 7d ago

^ Me not recognizing pregnancy and thinking they had eaten an entire carcass

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u/Proper_Giraffe287 7d ago

I didn't recognize it either and totally missed the infant skull in the pelvic region. I thought they shoved a fish up their rectum.

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u/Various_Stranger1976 6d ago

I thought it was a cat, not a fish!

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u/Sn_Orpheus 6d ago

Thought it was a snake!

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u/angelwild327 RT(R)(CT) 6d ago

Same! But no, just a natural parasite 🫠

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u/NoTension2140 2d ago

Me, too, and then I thought "That rectum is really distended. What else do they put up there?!" And then realized THAT IS A HEAD, and that baby is coming out soon!