Oh Look, Another Chest
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 at 10:33 pm
When working at the hospital, I always wondered what they were looking for on a chest x-ray (CXR). Now I know. For our Radiology rotation yesterday, we stared at CXR's for two hours straight. The preceptor was excellent, and explained all the features we should be looking for in different pathologies (i.e. pneumonia, cardiomegaly, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, etc.), as well as asking many tangentially related questions on the etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of these pathologies. I still have a long way to go on my hazy infiltrates, but I think I learned something. Next week, the focus is on abdominal films.
More to come, but I just don't feel like writing at the moment.
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you didn’t learn imaging stuff in classes?
Yeah, we had a few radiology lectures in anatomy, a few CT’s in Neuro, and some medical imaging in Path, but that was all just looking at isolated lesions. This was the first time where a system was introduced to fully examine the totality of the films.