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Septic emboli
Septic emboli usually present as multiple ill-defined nodules.
In about 50% cavitation is seen.
CT demonstrates more
lesions than the chest ... lesions abutting the pleura ... The chest film shows ... #CXR #CTChest # ... #SepticEmboli #Cavity
Radiologists use many terms to describe areas of decreased density or lucencies within the lung, like
lucencies within the lung ... we describe a chest ... X-ray, we are trying ... visible wall #CXR ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
Luftsichel Sign in Left Upper Lobe Collapse - Chest X-Ray

An upper lobe collapse causes the collapse
Luftsichel Sign ... Lobe Collapse - Chest ... causes the collapse lung ... Since the aorta has ... #Chest #XRay #CXR
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
Oleothorax - A chest ... area of the left lung ... Given her history ... of oil into the pleural ... #CXR #Oleothorax
Lungcancer
10% of lungcancers cavitate, most commonly squamous cell carcinoma.
Small cell lungcancer does not cavitate.
Bronchoalveolar carcinoma, or
Here a chest x-ray ... large cavitating lung ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #LungCancer ... #Cancer #Cavity
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
Redistribution In a normal chest ... supplying the upper lung ... redistribution applies to chest ... practice many chest ... #CXR #CHF #Cephalization
Supracondylar Elbow Fracture
• Most common elbow fracture in children, peak age 5-7 
• When looking at
anterior sail sign ... can't make A-OK sign ... Splint: Posterior long ... #Humerus #Radiology ... #XRay #Diagnosis
Pleural plaques
The CXR shows multiple opacities.
They have irregular shapes and do not look like a lung
The CXR shows multiple ... not look like a lung ... bordering the chest ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Pleural #
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
: weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... Chest x-ray: signs ... edema, bilateral pleural ... → no signs of CXR
Hampton hump is a radiologic sign which consists of a shallow wedge-shaped opacity in the periphery
is a radiologic sign ... periphery of the lung ... base against the pleural ... confirmed with chest ... #Cardiology #HamptonHump