chest imaging
- related: Pulmonology
- tags: #literature
Chest Xray
- deep sulcus sign on CXR can be from pneumothorax
- doughnut sign on lateral CXR can be from mediastinal lymph nodes
- spine sign on CXR indicates abnormal space occupying things
- Westermark sign is sign of PE on CXR
CT
- use appropriate windowing to detect pulmonary embolism PE on CT chest
- use contrast with CT to assess for bleeding, lymph nodes vs artery
- signet ring sign is seen in bronchiectasis
- tram tracking is lack of bronchial tapering on CT scan?
- varicose bronchiectasis has beaded appearance on CT
- cystic bronchiectasis can look like cysts
- pulmonary infarction has dense wedge shaped consolidation on CT
- Fundamentals of High Resolution Lung CT
- Mariencheck radiology conference composite
Literature Notes
ATS/ERS Combined ILD Comments
< 1.5 mm slices
1-3 mSv reduced radiation dose
Centrilobular nodules are either small airway disease or vascular disease
Bowing of trachea: on expiration
Lung cysts: LIP, LAM, Langerhans
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- Pulmonology
- cystic bronchiectasis can look like cysts
- related: chest imaging
- signet ring sign is seen in bronchiectasis
- related: chest imaging
- varicose bronchiectasis has beaded appearance on CT
- related: chest imaging
- deep sulcus sign on CXR can be from pneumothorax
- related: chest imaging
- doughnut sign on lateral CXR can be from mediastinal lymph nodes
- related: chest imaging
- pulmonary infarction has dense wedge shaped consolidation on CT
- related: chest imaging
- spine sign on CXR indicates abnormal space occupying things
- related: chest imaging
- use appropriate windowing to detect pulmonary embolism PE on CT chest
- related: chest imaging
- Westermark sign is sign of PE on CXR
- related: chest imaging