Download MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) Important Topics Pediatric X Rays
NO.1
TETRALOGY OF FALLOT:
1. BOOT SHAPED HEART
2. ROUNDED APEX
(SUGGESTING RVH)
NO.2
SUBPERIOSTEAL
REACTION IN
CONGENITAL SYPHILIS
NO.3
PNEUMONIA:
BILATERAL PATCHY
OPACITIES
NO.4
CHRONIC HEMOLYTIC
ANEMIA
(SHOWING HAIR-ON-
END APPEARANCE,
ALTHOUGH NOT SEEN
HERE)
NO.5
CHRONIC HEMOLYTIC
ANEMIA:
SQUARING OF
METACARPALS
(NORMALLY CONVEX)
DUE TO
EXTRAMEDULLARY
HEMATOPOIESIS
NO.6
LEFT SIDED MASSIVE
CONSOLIDATION
(NO TRACHEAL
SHIFTING)
NO.7
CARDIOMEGALY:
DEFINED AS:
>0.5
*It is measured by a horizontal line drawn
from right dome of diaphragm.
NO.8
RIGHT SIDED COLLAPSE
(PULLING OF TRACHEA
TO THE SAME SIDE+
SHIFTING OF CARDIAC
SHADOW TO THE SAME
SIDE) + LEFT SIDED
EMPHYSEMA (DARKER
DUE TO GREATER
PULLING OF AIR)
NO.9
TRANSPOSITION OF
GREAT VESSELS
(EGG-ON APPEARANCE)
NO.10
HYDROPNEUMOTHORAX:
CLEAR AIR-FLUID LEVEL
NO.11
SCARVY:
1. PENCIL THIN CORTEX
2. GROUND GLASS
APPEARANCE
3. WHITE LINE OF FRAENKEL
4. WIMBERGER'S RING SIGN
NO.12
PNEUMATOCELE:
HIGHLY SUGGESTIVE OF
Staph.aureus PNEUMONIA
NO.13
AIR BRONCHOGRAM
SHOWING
CONSOLIDATION OF
RIGHT LOBE
NO.14
ACTIVE RICKETS:
1. IREEGULAR MARGIN
(FRAYING)
2. CUPPING OF
METAPHYSIS
3. WIDENING OF
METAPHYSIS
(SPLAYING)
NO.15
RIGHT SIDED (TENSION)
PNEUMOTHORAX:
1. HYPERLUCENT AREA
2. SHARP MARGIN AT HILUM
3. SHIFTING OF
MEDIASTINUM TO THE
OPPOSITE SIDE
NO.16
LEFT SIDED
PNEUMOTHORAX
This post was last modified on 01 September 2021