Chest x ray for undergraduate student understandfully

 

Chest X ray

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Chest X-rays is most common radiological procedure which show images of

 Heart, Lungs, Blood vessels, Airways, The bones of your chest and Spine, breast shadow in case female.

Chest X-rays can also reveal fluid or air in the pleural cavity.

Types of view: Anterior posterior view,  Posterior anterior view

Difference between these views:

In Anterior posterior view heart shadow is more magnify.

Position of patient:

Upper limb should elevated & abducted so scapula shift laterally & chest cavity can be seen clearly.

 How to describe chest X-ray?

This is the plane X-ray of chest in posterior anterior view

Following structures are seen in the X-ray plate

Soft tissue structure showing in the x ray plate

1. Left border of heart (known as arterial border of heart  )

From below upward

• Apex of heart:
• Left ventricle
• Left auricle
• Pulmonary artery
• Aortic arch: (aortic knuckle)

2. Right border of heart (known as venous border of heart)

From below upward

• Inferior vena cava
• Right atrium
• Superior vena cava:

       3. Right and left Dome of diaphragm

       4. Trachea: central back shadow

       5. Hilum shadow

       6. In case female:  breast shadow

Bony structure

 Clavicle

Coracoid process of scapula

Clavicle

Scapula

Acromion process

1^st rib

Ribs

Thoracic vertebrae