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Chest Radiology Highlights: Tips, Tricks and Things You Should - - PDF document
Chest Radiology Highlights: Tips, Tricks and Things You Should - - PDF document
10/28/2015 Chest Radiology Highlights: Tips, Tricks and Things You Should Never Miss! Case #1 1 10/28/2015 Checklist Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Endotracheal tubes 2 10/28/2015 Airway landmarks 3 10/28/2015 3-7 cm What is
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies
Endotracheal tubes
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Airway landmarks
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What is the ideal location?
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Tip position with changes in head Esophageal intubation
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Esophageal intubation Enteric tubes
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When is the tube post-pyloric?
GE junction 2nd duodenum 3rd duodenum 4th duodenum Ligament of Treitz 1st duodenum
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Tension PTX s/p feeding tube removal Central lines
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Venous landmarks
The Elusive Cavoatrial Junction
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The Elusive Cavoatrial Junction
- 1. Junction of inferior bronchus intermedius
with lateral heart border
- 2. Two vertebral bodies below carina
- 3. 1-2 cm below right atrial/SVC junction
Venous landmarks
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Variation with expiration ? location
Right posterior oblique
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Left SVC
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Duplicated SVC
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Duplicated SVC Pacemaker in left SVC
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PICC in internal mammary vein
PICC in superior intercostal vein
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Central line free in mediastinum
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Pulmonary artery catheters
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Retained surgical sponge
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Retained catheter fragment Retained guidewire
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Pneumothorax
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Pneumothorax
Pneumothorax vs. skin fold
- Pleural line, NOT edge
- No vessels lateral to line
- Line doesn’t go outside chest wall or across
midline
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Pneumothorax Where is the PTX?
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Skin fold Skin fold
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Overlying sheet Deep Sulcus Sign
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Pneumothorax (subpulmonic) ? Medial PTX
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Tension pneumothorax
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Pneumothorax
Case #3
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Pneumothorax Mediastinal abnormalities
Normal mediastinal interfaces
Right paratracheal stripe Aorta Left pulmonary artery Aorticopulmonary window Azygoesophageal recess
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Tuberculosis Metastatic disease (unknown primary)
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Lung Cancer
Esophageal cancer
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Pneumothorax Mediastinal abnormalities
Case #4
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Pneumothorax Mediastinal abnormalities Tough spots in the lungs
Subtle cancer #1
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Subtle cancer #2
Subtle cancer #3
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? pneumonia ? pneumonia
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Normal LLL Pneumonia Normal Pleural effusion
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Normal Nodule Normal Pott’s disease
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Pneumothorax Mediastinal abnormalities Tough spots in the lungs
Don’t forget about the bones
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Lines, tubes and foreign bodies Pneumothorax Mediastinal lymphadenopathy Lung nodules Bones
Which compartment of lung is affected?
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Alveolar Interstitial
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Airways
Not applicable
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Alveolar
- Features of alveolar disease
– 1. Confluent opacities – 2. Air bronchograms – 3. Fluffy at the periphery
What produces alveolar opacities?
- Fluid
- Blood
- Pus
- Cells
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ARDS Pulmonary edema
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PCP Pneumonia Hemorrhage
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Which compartment of lung is affected Interstitial
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Interstitial Alveolar Miliary TB
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What diseases cause small nodules?
- Infections (fungus and tuberculosis)
- Malignancy
- Sarcoidosis
Miliary TB
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Miliary fungal Sarcoidosis
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Metastatses: lung cancer
Interstitial
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What diseases cause linear or reticular opacities?
- Pulmonary edema
- Malignancy
- Interstitial lung disease (e.g. IPF)
Lymphangitic spread of tumor
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Edema Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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Which compartment of lung is affected?
Airways disease
- Circular
- Tubular
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