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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 ... The chest film shows ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #SepticEmboli #Cavity ... #RadiologyAssistant
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
in interstitial lung ... On a Chest X-Ray ... is interstitial lung ... detected on a chest ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
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 ... #Cavitary #RadiologyAssistant
Cardiac incisura
Click image to enlarge.
On the right side of the chest the lung will lie against
right side of the chest ... against the anterior chest ... reach the anterior chest ... be seen on many chest ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR
Radiologists use many terms to describe areas of decreased density or lucencies within the lung, like
lucencies within the lung ... , like cyst, cavity ... we describe a chest ... density in the lung ... visible wall #CXR
Mucoid impaction
Mucus plugs or mucoid impaction can mimick the appearance of lung nodules or a mass.
Sometimes
impaction can mimick ... appearance of lung ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #CTChest #MucoidImpaction ... Mucus #Plugging #RadiologyAssistant
There is a hydropneumothorax.
Notice the air-fluid level (blue arrow).
The upper lobe is still attached to the
attached to the chest ... There is a lung ... with a cystic lung ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... Lymphangioleiomyomatosis #LAM #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a chest film of a patient with UIP due to IPF.
The findings on
On the left a chest ... findings on the chest ... Whenever you see a chest ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... Reticular #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
Lobar pneumonia
On the chest x-ray there is an ill-defined area of increased density in the right
pneumonia On the chest ... weight loss or long ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... Lobar #Pneumonia #RadiologyAssistant
Assessment of Chest Tube Drains
Stepwise assessment of Chest Tube Function
TUBE POSITIONING
 • Look at the CXR:
• Look at the CXR ... cavity? ... since a prior CXR ... injury to the lung ... large injury to lung