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Mediastinal Widening - Differential Diagnosis

 • Vascular: Aortic dissection, Aortic anourysm, Enlarged pulmonary arteries, Venous or
or middle lobe collapse ... Thymoma, Thyroid, Lymphoma ... Pneumomediastinum, Pericardial effusion ... • CXR rotation ... #pulmonary #radiology
Left upper lobe atelectasis
What are the findings?
 - Minimal volume loss with elevation of the left
left upper lobe #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR ... #Lateral #LUL # ... Lobar #Collapse ... #APWindow #RadiologyAssistant
On the PET-CT there is both a tumor in the left lung, aswell as in the
#Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #PETCT #LUL ... #Lobar #Collapse ... #RadiologyAssistant
Right upper lobe atelectasis
Findings:
1) triangular density
2) elevated right hilus
3) obliteration of the retrosternal clear space (arrow)
space (arrow) #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR ... #RUL #Lobar #Collapse ... #LungCancer #RadiologyAssistant
Left lower lobe atelectasis - There is a triangular density seen through the cardiac shadow.
This must
the opposite #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR ... #LLL #Lobar #Collapse ... #RadiologyAssistant
A common finding in atelectasis of the right upper lobe is 'tenting' of the diafphragm (blue
#Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #RUL #Lobar ... #Collapse #Tenting ... #RadiologyAssistant
Here are the most common examples of these four patterns on a chest x-ray (click image
opacities - Fine Nodular ... Masses Atelectasis #Diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Consolidation ... #Patterns #RadiologyAssistant
The CT-image is not very helpful in the differentiation.
There are hypodense areas, which could be masses.
On
Finally the diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest # ... Hodgkins #Lymphoma ... #Perihilar #LUL
There is an atelectasis of the left upper lobe.
You would not expect the apical region to
#Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... LUL #Lobar #Collapse ... LuftsichelSign #RadiologyAssistant
Here we have a patient with atelectasis of the right upper lobe as a result of
view (red arrow) #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR ... #RUL #Collapse ... Tracheal #Deviation #RadiologyAssistant