Case 4
Young patient with acute shortness of breath after a car accident.
Further Explanation:
For each case, fill out part of the table, considering the appearance of airways, lung parenchyma, pulmonary vasculature and pleura and enter descriptive adjectives for CXR and CT/other findings. Be sure to evaluate overall lung volume. For DESCRIBING abnormalities, consider their SHAPE, DENSITY and DISTRIBUTION, rather than trying to choose a specific diagnosis from the start.
Case 4
Choose a spokesman from your group to present your findings for this case during class discussion. The findings on the chest radiograph are subtle, partly because of the way the image was done--be sure to note what type of image you think the chest radiograph is, and how it ties in to the findings on the second radiograph.
Further Explanation:
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