Saturday 17 August 2013

X ray

Chest Heart & Blood Vessels

Flask-shaped / Pear-shaped / Leathe- bottle / Money-bag shaped heart - Pericardial effusion
Boot-shaped heart / Coer-en-sabot - Fallot's tetralogy
Box shaped appearance - Tricuspid atresia
Jug Handle appearance - Primary pulmonary artery hypertension
"3" like appearance - Coarctation of Aorta
Egg on side appearance - Transposition of great vessels
Egg in cup appearance - Constrictive pericarditis
Snow-man heart - TAPVC (total anomalous pulmonary venous connection)
Figure of '8' - TAPVC (total anomalous pulmonary venous connection)
Cottage Leaf appearance - TAPVC
Pericardial calcification - Constrictive pericarditis
Calcification in heart wall - is seen in - Carcinoid syndrome
Calfication of ascending aorta - Atherosclerosis, Syphilis
Hilar dance on fluoroscopy - Atrial Septal Defect
Xray finding in Ebstein's anomaly - Pulmonary oligemia
Posterior displacement of trachea - seen in - aneurysm of aorta
Obliteration of left border of heart (PA view of chest) is - suggestive of - Lingular pathology (left lung)
Bat's wings appearance - Pulmonary oedema
Pruned tree appearance (of pulmonary circulation) - Pulmonary artery hypertension

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