Chest x-ray review: everything else
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Title
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Chest x-ray EExposure (basic)
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This is a basic article for medical students and non-radiologists
Chest x-ray review is a key competency for medical students, junior doctors and other allied health professionals. Using A, B, C, D, E is a helpful and systematic method for chest x-ray review where E refers to "everything else".
- previous: disability (fractures)
- next: review areas
Exposure (everything else)
At the end of the review, you need to remember to check for other things that don't fall into the A-D categories. This includes free gas within the abdomen (pneumoperitoneum), abnormalities in the soft tissues of the thorax including absent breast shadows.
Pathology
- pneumoperitoneum
- mastectomy
- surgical emphysema
- pectus excavatum
- thoracic foreign bodies
-<p> </p><p> </p><p>At the end of the review, you need to remember to check for other things that don't fall into the A-D categories. This includes free gas within the abdomen (pneumoperitoneum), abnormalities in the soft tissues of the thorax including absent breast shadows.</p><h6>Pathology</h6><ul>-<li>pneumoperitoneum</li>-<li>mastectomy</li>-<li>surgical emphysema</li>-<li>pectus excavatum</li>- +<h5>This is a basic article for medical students and non-radiologists</h5><p><strong>Chest x-ray review</strong> is a key competency for medical students, junior doctors and other allied health professionals. Using A, B, C, D, E is a helpful and systematic method for <a href="/articles/chest-x-ray-an-approach-basic">chest x-ray review</a> where E refers to "everything else".</p><ul>
- +<li>previous: <a href="/articles/chest-x-ray-disability-basic">disability (fractures)</a>
- +</li>
- +<li>next: <a href="/articles/chest-x-ray">review areas</a>
- +</li>
- +</ul><h4>Exposure (everything else)</h4><p>At the end of the review, you need to remember to check for other things that don't fall into the A-D categories. This includes free gas within the abdomen (pneumoperitoneum), abnormalities in the soft tissues of the thorax including absent breast shadows.</p><h6>Pathology</h6><ul>
- +<li><a href="/articles/pneumoperitoneum-basic">pneumoperitoneum</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/mastectomy-basic">mastectomy</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/surgical-emphysema-basic">surgical emphysema</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/pectus-excavatum-basic">pectus excavatum</a></li>
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- Chest
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