Radiology Key

Chest Trauma In European countries, blunt chest trauma is significantly more common than penetrating chest trauma (e.g., gunshot or stab wounds). Two-thirds of all blunt chest injuries are caused by…

Congenital Thoracic Diseases and Malformations The lungs, airways, and pulmonary vessels are involved in several developmental anomalies. There is no uniform system for classification of such developmental anomalies. A breakdown…

Airway Diseases 10.1 Diseases of the Trachea and Mainstem Bronchi 10.1.1 Tracheal Stenosis and Stenosis of the Mainstem Bronchi Benign tracheal stenosis usually occurs secondary to endotracheal tube cuff pressure…

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic illness with progressive obstruction of the airways which cannot be completely reversed with medication based on bronchodilators or…

Nonvascular Interventions Conduct of percutaneous diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the thorax is long established. These are carried out under the guidance of different imaging modalities (fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, including…

Immunologic Diseases of the Lung Immunologic diseases of the lung may present in the bronchial system, lung parenchyma, and the pulmonary vessels. The classification system used in this book with…

Basic Anatomy Contrary to likely expectations, this present chapter does not give a comprehensive description of the anatomy of the chest organs. Rather, it highlights a number of anatomic landmarks…

General Symptomatology 3.1 Projection Radiography 3.1.1 Generic Signs The Fleischner Society has incorporated a number of generally accepted radiologic signs into its Glossary of Terms for Thoracic Imaging (see Chapter…

Examination Technique This chapter describes specific aspects of examining the chest organs with the different imaging modalities. It is outside the scope of this textbook to give a comprehensive overview…