determining between PA and AP chest xray

• related: chest imaging
• tags: #pulmonology #literature

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• patient faces the receptor
• shoulders are rotated anteriorly. Scapula move laterally off lung fields. ¹

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• chest imaging
  • determining between PA and AP chest xray

• In PA, scapula should not be visible within lung field.

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Footnotes

1. https://radiopaedia.org/articles/chest-pa-view-1?lang=us ↩

2. https://www.elearning.isrrt.org/mod/book/tool/print/index.php?id=321 ↩