The clothes maketh the sign.

Unlabelled: Pattern recognition is a key tool that enables radiologists to evoke certain diagnoses based on a radiologic appearance. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Polonius tells his son Laertes to dress well because "apparel oft proclaims the man"; this phrase is now expressed in modern parlance as "the clothes maketh the man". Similarly in radiology, appearances are everything, and in the case of radiologic signs, occasionally "the clothes maketh the sign".

On-call musculoskeletal radiographs: discrepancy rates between radiology residents and musculoskeletal radiologists.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of discrepancy between radiology residents and attending musculoskeletal radiologists in interpretation of on-call musculoskeletal radiographs.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 2219 consecutive musculoskeletal radiology reports on patients who visited the emergency department between January 2009 and December 2010. The images were initially interpreted overnight by on-call residents (postgraduate years 3-5), and a final interpretation was rendered the next morning by a musculoskeletal radiologist.