ABC of Reading Chest X Ray

Edmondson, MD Harker Heights, Texas Published by: Mohammad Al-Marhoon dr.marhoon@gmail.com WWW.SMSO.NET.

ABC of Reading Chest X-Ray

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F

A

B

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C

D

E

A Airway (midline, patent)

B Bones (eg, fractures, lytic lesions)

C Cardiac silhouette size

D Diaphragm (eg, flat or elevated hemidiaphragm)

E Edges (borders) of the heart (to rule out lingular and left middle lobe pneumonia or infiltrates)

F Fields (lung fields well inflated; no effusions, infiltrates, or nodules noted)

G Gastric bubble (present, obscured, absent)

H Hilum (nodes, masses)

I Instrumentation (eg, lines, tubes)

Jeffrey M Edmondson, MD

Harker Heights, Texas

Published by: Mohammad Al-Marhoon (dr.marhoon@gmail.com)

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