CXR

Basic Approach to the CXR – TCV Lecture
Notes Scales and Music

CXR and the Heart

 

• Frontal View Basic Parts
  • • • • • • Frontal View and Cardiomegaly
            • Frontal View and the Pulmonary Artery 
            • CXR and the Small Heart
            • Frontal View Applied to Abnormalities
            • Shape Reflecting Size on Frontal View
              • Triangular Shape
            • Straight Heart Border
• Lateral View Basic Parts Lateral View
  • Applied to Abnormalities

Right Atrium Normal and Applied to Abnormalities
TV
RV
RVOT
PV
PA
Pulmonary Artery to Bronchus Ratio
PV
LA
MV
LV
AoV
Ao

• Airways

CXR and the Lung

Lung Basic Parts  and Fissures 

CXR and Disease

• • • • CXR and CHF 
        • Interstitial Edema
        • Pulmonary Edema
      • CXR and PE
        • Hampton Hump
        • Westermark Sign
      • CXR and Mitral Disease

 

CXR

Technique

A-P view

 

Structural Evaluation

• • • Size of the heart and parts of the heart on CXR

IVC

SVC

Azygous Vein

Polysplenia Syndrome

Right Atrium

Tricuspid Valve

Right Ventricle

Pulmonary Artery

Left Atrium

Carinal Angle

Carina

Left Ventricle

Aorta

• • • • • Shape
          • Pectus Excavatum
        • Position
        • Character