Lateral Chest Case 9
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PA Erect Chest
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This is the answer page to Case 9 from the page titled What is the Value of the Lateral Chest Projection?
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PA Erect Chest
This 38 year old male presented to the Emergency Department with a history of headache and fever.
He was referred for chest radiography
There is increased left retrocardiac density and airbronchogram lines (black arrows)
There is also a suggestion of loss of visualisation of the left hemidiaphragm medially (can be normal).
There is also increased density adjacent to the right heart border [white arrows]
Lateral Chest
There is loss of visualisation of both hemidiaphragms posteriorly
There is loss of the normal darkening of the thoracic vertebral bodies inferiorly.
The appearances are consistent with bibasal collapse/consolidation.
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