1. How to read a CXR …
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4. Initial checks film quality
Check the patients name
Look up the patients history
Read the date of the radiograph.
Look for markers
Position the postro -anterior and lateral view
Antro -posterior views taken in certain circumstances .
Check for any instrument insertions
film quality
Is it taken under full inspiration ? U should be able to see 10 posterior ribs and 6 anterior ribs.
Check for rotation

5. Check patients name

6. Look up the patients hISTORY

7. LOOK FOR MARKERS

8. Indication of AP view Severe illness Pediatric s
diminish distance of x-ray beam result in more magnification of the heart

9. Normal chest pa and Lat. view

12. Lung zone

15. Inspiratory vs. expiratory films

18. Check if there are any instrument

26. 2. Air space opacification (air space filling )
Replacement of air in the alveoli by fluid or other materials …it has an ill-defined border except when it comes in contact with a fissure .
Exudate …consolidation
Transudate ….pulmonary odema
Air bronchogram… air filling the normal bronchi , being made visible by the opacification of the near by alveoli.
Pulmonary collapse . (atelectasis)
Nodular ,spherical opacities
Linear opacities.
Wide spread opacites
Cavitation

27. Consolidation( pneumonia)
Replacement of air in one or more acini by fluid or solid material vol. of the lung is normal un like collapse

28. Middle lobe consolidation