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Here are the most common examples of these four patterns on a chest x-ray (click image
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Diffuse consolidation
The most common cause of diffuse consolidation is pulmonary edema due to heart failure.
This is
have an acute cardiac ... , may have non-cardiac ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
with multifocal consolidations ... multiple ill-defined masses ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Peripheral ... OrganizingPneumonia #BOOP #RadiologyAssistant
Left Atrium
 - The upper posterior border of the heart is formed by the left atrium.
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Sarcoidosis
On a CXR sarcoidosis usually first presents with hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy (example).
Parenchymal disease can present
Sarcoidosis On a CXR ... can present as consolidation ... or even as masses ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Sarcoidosis #RadiologyAssistant
Multifocal
Multifocal consolidations are also described as multifocal ill-defined opacities or densities.
In most cases these are the
In most cases these ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #CXR #Multifocal ... #Consolidation ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
The CT-image is not very helpful in the differentiation.
There are hypodense areas, which could be masses.
On
which could be masses ... could be areas of consolidation ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest # ... #RadiologyAssistant
The left main pulmonary artery (in purple) passes over the left main bronchus and is higher
artery (in purple) passes ... in blue) which passes ... #Clinical #Anatomy ... #Radiology #CXR ... Pulmonary #Artery #RadiologyAssistant
Pleural plaques
The CXR shows multiple opacities.
They have irregular shapes and do not look like a lung
Pleural plaques The CXR ... look like a lung masses ... or consolidations ... #Clinical #Radiology ... Plaques #Asbestos #RadiologyAssistant
On a chest film only the outer contours of the heart are seen.
In many cases we
In many cases we ... #Anatomy #Radiology ... #CXR #Atrium #Ventricle ... #Cardiac #Chambers ... #RadiologyAssistant