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A lobar consolidation located cephalad to the diaphragm. The branching, hyperechoic air bronchograms define this consolidation.
#Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #Sagittal #Pneumonia ... #ALiEM
Horizontal reverberation artifacts - A-lines are visualized as hyperechoic, horizontal artifacts at regular intervals deep to
the near field #Clinical ... #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #ALines #ALiEM
On the left three different patients with lung cysts.
From left to right: Lymphangiomyomatosis, LIP and Langerhans
the left three different ... patients with lung ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #CTChest ... #Cystic #Comparison
Pleural effusion visualized as an anechoic fluid collection located cephalad to the arrows. #Clinical #EM #Radiology
#Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... PleuralEffusion #ALiEM
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... for Klebsiella pneumonia ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... seen • Chest CT ... Clindamycin in case of PCN
B-lines are visualized as hyperechoic vertical artifacts arising from the pleural line and extending off the
A-line pattern #Clinical ... #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #BLines #ALiEM
X-ray limitations
It’s important to know the limitations of X-rays so we can correctly interpret them in
interpret them in clinical ... Care UltraSound (POCUS ... ) to CT or MRI. ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Limitations #Comparison
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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throughout the lungs ... Differential Diagnosis ... rarely typical pneumonia ... pulmonary #CXR #clinical ... #CT
On the left an immunocompromised patient with PCP.
The CT findings are diffuse ground-glass opacification.
The findings are
The CT findings ... , but in this clinical ... the most likely diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Pneumocystis #Pneumonia
Melioidosis - Skin Infection
63M h/o diabetes with c/o fever, chest pain, dyspnea x 3 days, CT
dyspnea x 3 days, CT ... left lower lobe pneumonia ... Diagnosis: Melioidosis ... alcoholism, liver/lung ... Infection #Cellulitis #Clinical