Chest X-Rays for Medical Students
Christopher Clarke, Anthony Dux
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Chest X-Rays for Medical Students
Christopher Clarke, Anthony Dux
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Chest X-rays for Medical Students offers a fresh analytical approach to identifying chest abnormalities, helping medical students, junior doctors, and nurses understand the underlying physics and basic anatomical and pathological details of X-ray images of the chest. The authors provide a memorable framework for analysing and presenting chest radiographs, with each radiograph appearing twice in a side-by-side comparison, one as seen in a clinical setting and the second highlighting the pathology.
This new second edition includes significant revisions, improved annotations of X-rays, expanded pathologies, and numerous additional high-quality images. A comprehensive one-stop guide to learning chest radiograph interpretation, this book:
- Aligns with the latest Royal College of Radiologists' Undergraduate Radiology Curriculum
- Offers guidance on how to formulate normal findings
- Features self-assessment tests, presentation exercises, and varied examples
- Includes sections on radiograph quality X-ray hazards and precautions
Chest X-rays for Medical Students is an ideal study guide and clinical reference for any medical student, junior doctor, nurse or radiographer.
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The ABCDE of chest X‐rays
- Look at the trachea and right and left main bronchi.
- Look to see if the lungs are uniformly expanded and compare the lung fields.
- Look around the edges of each lung.
- Look at the costophrenic angles and the four silhouettes.
- Look at the cardiac size.
- Look at the great vessels (pulmonary vessels and aorta).
- Look at the mediastinum and hila.
- Look for a fracture, especially of the ribs or shoulder girdle.
- Look for gas under the diaphragm.
- Look for surgical emphysema.
- Look for both breast shadows.
- Look for foreign bodies and medical interventions.
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A – Airway
How to review the airway
What to look for
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Tracheal deviation
- Deviated towards diseased side (conditions that pull the trachea):
- lung collapse;
- pneumonectomy (removal of a lung) or lobectomy (removal of just one lobe);
- unilateral fibrosis;
- agenesis of lung (also called lung aplasia – complete absence of a whole lung and its bronchus).
- Deviated away from diseased side (conditions that push the trachea):
- tension pneumothorax;
- massive pleural effusion;
- mediastinal masses;
- para‐tracheal masses.