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Imaging tests

James Nguyen

Chest x-ray – handout available

Chest x-ray
Case courtesy of Ian Bickle, from the Radiopaedia case rID: 74856. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Interpretation. Do not provide to student/team unless requested in consultation.
Moderate sized left pneumothorax with a deep costophrenic angle. No mediastinal shift. Heart size normal.
Right lung clear.

CT chest (high resolution) – handout available

Chest CT scan
Case courtesy of Guilherme Pioli Resende, from the Radiopaedia case rID: 82060. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Interpretation: moderate/large left pneumothorax with partial lobar atelectasis and small pleural effusion. Apical blebs bilaterally.

Other imaging

 

 

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