Chest X-Ray Made Easy

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Corne MA PhD MB BS FRCP, Kate Pointon MRCP FRCR

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Translated into over a dozen languages, this book has been widely praised for making interpretation of the chest X-ray as simple as possible. It describes the range of conditions likely to be encountered on the wards and guides the doctor through the process of examining and interpreting the film based on the appearance of the abnormality shown. It then assists the doctor in determining the nature of the abnormality and points the clinician towards a possible differential diagnosis. It covers the common radiological problems the junior doctors are faced with starting with the appearance of the film, e.g. showing generalised shadowing or a coin lesion. It gives advice on how to examine an X-ray, how to check its technical quality and how to identify where the lesion is. All the X-rays are accompanied by a simple line diagram outlining where the abnormality is.

• Covers the full range of common radiological problems.
• Includes valuable advice on how to examine an X-ray.
• Assists the doctor in determining the nature of the abnormality.
• Points the clinician towards a possible differential diagnosis.

• Now presented in two-colour to enhance the appearance of the text.
• New material includes an introduction to thoracic CT scanning indicating the usefulness of these scans where appropriate.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover
Half title page
Title page
Copyright page
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
CHAPTER 1: How to look at a chest X-ray
Basic interpretation is easy
Technical quality
Scanning the PA film
How to look at the lateral film
CHAPTER 2: Localizing lesions
The lungs
The heart
CHAPTER 3: The CT scan
CHAPTER 4: The white lung field
Collapse
Volume loss
Consolidation
Pneumocystis carinii (jiroveci) pneumonia (PCP)
Pleural effusion
Asbestos plaques
Mesothelioma
Pleural disease on a CT scan
Lung nodule
Cavitating lung lesion
Left ventricular failure (LVF)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Bronchiectasis
Fibrosis
Chickenpox pneumonia
Miliary shadowing
CHAPTER 5: The black lung field
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Pneumothorax
Tension pneumothorax
Pulmonary embolus (PE)
Mastectomy
CHAPTER 6: The abnormal hilum
Unilateral hilar enlargement
Bilateral hilar enlargement
CHAPTER 7: The abnormal heart shadow
Atrial septal defect (ASD)
Mitral stenosis
Left ventricular aneurysm
Pericardial effusion
CHAPTER 8: The widened mediastinum
CHAPTER 9: Abnormal ribs
Rib fractures
Metastatic deposits
CHAPTER 10: Abnormal soft tissues
Surgical emphysema
CHAPTER 11: The hidden abnormality
Pancoast’s tumour
Hiatus hernia
Air under the diaphragm
Index