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Cavitary Lesion with Air-Fluid Level on Chest XRay

70+ year old man with PMH of latent TB
Air-Fluid Level on Chest ... and pleuritic chest ... #Cavitary #CXR ... #ChestXRay #Clinical ... #Pulmonary #Radiology
A 50 yo F with a history of poor dentition presents to the ED with fever
A CXR is done. ... Diagnosis: Cavitary ... consistent w/ lung ... abscess #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #ChestXRay
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 ... visible wall #CXR ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
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 #CTChest # ... #SepticEmboli #Cavity
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
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
Oleothorax - A chest ... opacity in the upper area ... Clinical #PCC #Radiology ... #CXR #Oleothorax ... #NEJM
Lobar pneumonia
On the chest x-ray there is an ill-defined area of increased density in the right
pneumonia On the chest ... an ill-defined area ... weight loss or long ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #AirBronchogram
Whistling Cough- A 4-year-old boy presented to the otorhinolaryngology outpatient clinic with a 2-day history of
see source for video ... and lower left lung ... lodged in the lung ... #NEJM #clinical ... #radiology #chest
Radiation Dose to Adults from Common Imaging Examinations
ABDOMINAL REGION
 - Computed Tomography (CT) — Abdomen and
6 mSv 2 years CHEST ... Tomography (CT) — Lung ... #PatientInfo #Radiology ... Doses #Imaging #ChestXRay ... #CXR #CT #Nuclear
Gastric Cancer in Chest Radiograph - A plain radiograph of the chest showed a round, irregular
Gastric Cancer in Chest ... the subcardial area ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #GI #Honc #CXR ... GastricCancer #NEJM