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        • Abdominal Pain (Chronic)
        • Bowel Obstruction (Suspected)
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        • Dyspepsia
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        • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Suspected)
        • Oesophageal Cancer (Staging)
        • Upper Quadrant Pain (Chronic Right)
      • Hepatic
        • Ascites
        • Focal Liver Lesion (History of Malignancy)
        • Focal Liver Lesion (Investigation)
        • Hepatocellular Cancer (Surveillance)
        • Hepatocellular Cancer (Suspected)
        • Liver Lesion (Incidental)
      • Pancreatic and Biliary System
        • Cholecystitis (Acalculous, Suspected Acute)
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        • Cholestatic Jaundice
        • Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
        • Pancreatic Cancer (Suspected and Staging)
        • Pancreatic Cyst (Incidental)
        • Pancreatitis (Acute)
        • Pancreatitis (Chronic)
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        • Abdominal Blunt Trauma
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        • Abscess (Intra-Abdominal)
        • Drug Trafficking (Suspected)
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      • Musculoskeletal (Non-Trauma)
        • Bone Metastases
        • Bone Pain
        • Chronic Shoulder Pain
        • Foot Ulcer (Diabetic)
        • Hip (Avascular Necrosis)
        • Hip Pain (Non-Traumatic)
        • Knee Pain (Non-Traumatic)
        • Low Back Pain
        • Multiple Myeloma
        • Neck Pain (Non-Traumatic)
        • Orbital Pathology (Suspected)
        • Osteomyelitis (Suspected Acute)
        • Soft Tissue Mass
        • Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
      • Musculoskeletal (Trauma)
        • Acute Traumatic Shoulder Pain
        • Ankle Injury
        • Bone and Joint Trauma (Overview)
        • Cervical Spine Injury
        • Facial Trauma
        • Hip Fracture (Suspected)
        • Knee Pain (Post-Traumatic)
        • Orbital Pathology (Suspected)
        • Shoulder (Pain or Instability)
        • Stress Fracture (Suspected)
        • Thoraco-lumbar Spine Trauma
        • Wrist Fracture (Suspected)
      • Trauma
        • Abdominal Blunt Trauma
        • Chest Trauma
        • Head Injury (Adult)
        • Leg Ischaemia (Acute)
        • Lower Urinary Tract Trauma
        • Thoracic Aorta Blunt Trauma
        • Suspected Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury
      • Miscellaneous
        • Foreign Body (Suspected)
        • Orbital Foreign Body (Suspected)
        • Orbital Pathology (Suspected)
    • Neurological
      • Dementia
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      • Headache (Adult)
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      • Meningitis (Suspected)
      • Multiple Sclerosis
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      • Pituitary Dysfunction or Mass (Suspected)
      • Psychosis (First Episode)
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      • Stroke
      • Transient Ischaemic Attack
      • Vertigo
    • Obstetric & Gynaecological
      • Adnexal Masses (Incidental)
      • Amenorrhoea (Secondary)
      • Bleeding (Abnormal Pre-Menopausal)
      • Bleeding (First Trimester)
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      • Cervical Cancer (Staging)
      • Ectopic Pregnancy (Suspected)
      • Endometriosis (Suspected)
      • Fetal Wellbeing (Assessment)
      • First Trimester Screening
      • Haemorrhage (Antepartum)
      • Intrauterine Growth Restriction (Suspected)
      • Ovarian Cancer (Staging)
      • Paediatric, Hydronephrosis (Antenatal)
      • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
      • Pulmonary Embolism (Pregnancy)
      • Tubo-ovarian Torsion (Suspected)
    • Paediatric
      • Paediatric, Abdominal Pain (Acute Non-Traumatic)
      • Paediatric, Elbow Injury
      • Paediatric, Head Trauma
      • Paediatric, Headache
      • Paediatric, Headache (Recurrent)
      • Paediatric, Hip Developmental Dysplasia
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      • Paediatric, Injury (Non-Accidental)
      • Paediatric, Knee Pain
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      • Paediatric, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
      • Paediatric, Neck or Back Pain
      • Paediatric, Paranasal Sinus (Suspected)
      • Paediatric, Pneumonia (Recurrent or Persistent)
      • Paediatric, Scaphoid Fracture (Suspected)
      • Paediatric, Scoliosis (Adolescent)
      • Paediatric, Seizure
      • Paediatric, Sinusitis (Acute)
      • Paediatric, Stridor (Persistent)
      • Paediatric, Urinary Tract Infection
      • Paediatric, Vomiting
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      • Bronchiectasis
      • Chest Trauma
      • Chest X-Ray (Pre-Operative)
      • Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (Suspected)
      • Dyspnoea (Chronic)
      • Haemoptysis
      • Mediastinal Mass (Suspected)
      • Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (Staging)
      • Pulmonary Embolism (Haemodynamically Stable)
      • Pulmonary Embolism (Haemodynamically Unstable)
      • Pulmonary Embolism (Pregnancy)
      • Raised Hemidiaphragm on CXR
      • Respiratory Illness (Acute)
      • Solid Pulmonary Nodules
      • Subsolid Pulmonary Nodules
    • Trauma
      • Head
        • Suspected Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury
        • Head Injury (Adult)
        • Paediatric, Head Trauma
      • Musculoskeletal
        • Ankle Injury
        • Bone and Joint Trauma (Overview)
        • Cervical Spine Injury
        • Facial Trauma
        • Hip Fracture (Suspected)
        • Knee Pain (Post-Traumatic)
        • Leg Ischaema (Acute)
        • Orbital Pathology (Suspected)
        • Osteoporosis (Suspected)
        • Scaphoid Fracture
        • Shoulder (Pain or Instability)
        • Stress Fracture (Suspected)
        • Thoraco-Lumbar Spine Trauma
      • Paediatric
        • Paediatric, Elbow Injury
        • Paediatric, Head Trauma
        • Paediatric, Injury (Non-Accidental)
        • Paediatric, Knee Pain
        • Paediatric, Neck or Back Pain
        • Paediatric, Scaphoid Fracture (Suspected)
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        • Abdominal Blunt Trauma
        • Chest Trauma
        • Lower Urinary Tract Trauma
        • Thoracic Aorta Blunt Trauma
    • Urological
      • Bladder Cancer (Staging)
      • Haematuria (Painless Microscopic)
      • Haematuria (Painless Visible)
      • Loin Pain (Acute Pyelonephritis)
      • Loin Pain (Renal Colic)
      • Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
      • Lower Urinary Tract Trauma
      • Prostate Cancer (Suspected and Staging)
      • Renal Cell Cancer (Staging)
      • Renal Failure (Acute or Acute on Chronic)
      • Renal Mass
      • Renal Transplant Dysfunction (Acute)
      • Scrotal Mass
      • Scrotal Pain (Acute)
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  • Bone Pain
  • Chronic Shoulder Pain
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