“DVA: Developmental Venous ALIEN!”

Sagittal T1 (MP-RAGE) post-contrast with frontal lobe DVA (developmental venous anomaly)

What a film. I was sitting in the theater and watching previews at the tender age of 15. I don’t recall what we were seeing that night but suddenly the trailer for “Alien” began. It felt entirely different from anything I had seen before or since. I turned to my friend and whispered, “what the fuck was THAT?!” I still can feel it. A work that encapsulates an entire genre. All too rare.

Published by Stephen Futterer

Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.

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