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Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... Lung abscess ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Abscess Diagnosis ... Blood cultures • CXR
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Radiology • Miliary ... throughout the lungs ... Differential Diagnosis ... rarely typical pneumonia ... #CXR #clinical
Cavitation - Pneumonia
In virulent pyogenic infections an abscess may form within the consolidated lung as a
infections an abscess ... the consolidated lung ... be seen on the chest ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest #
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
densities in both lungs ... So we are dealing ... the differential diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Peripheral
There is a hydropneumothorax.
Notice the air-fluid level (blue arrow).
The upper lobe is still attached to the
attached to the chest ... So we can assume ... is a possible diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Pneumothorax
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
between these chest ... nodular interstitial lung ... disease, that is so ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #CXR
PA view
On the PA chest-film it is important to examine all the areas where the lung
view On the PA chest-film ... paravertebral abscess ... #Clinical #Anatomy ... #Radiology #CXR ... #Normal #Labeled
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Fraction (HFrEF) Clinical ... Symptoms: cough, abdominal ... distension, wheeze, abdominal ... : weight gain, lung ... → no signs of CXR
Left-Middle-Lobe Pneumonia - Radiography of the chest revealed a cardiac apex, aortic arch, and gastric bubble
Radiography of the chest ... infiltrate in the left lung ... was diagnosed. ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Kartagener
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
enzymes, diarrhea, abdominal ... Pulmonary Disease: Clinical ... • Dyspnea, • Chest ... Diagnosis Of NTM ... • Clinical (Symptoms