Thoracic Key

Fig. 13.1 18-year-old male with history of penetrating cardiac injury from shrapnel. Frontal (a) and lateral (b) radiographs demonstrate a metallic foreign body (arrows) overlying the anterior heart. A single…

Fig. 23.1 Frontal view of the chest (left) and axial image from a contrast-enhanced CT scan (right) show a moderate-sized right pleural effusion (blue arrows) in a patient with surgical…

Fig. 22.1 Lateral and frontal radiographs of the chest in a young adult patient show right atrial calcified thrombus (arrows) in a patient with atrial fibrillation Fig. 22.2 Axial image…

Fig. 14.1 Axial CT (a) and intracardiac 3D view (b) show a prominent, linear crista terminalis (CT, arrows) along the right lateral wall of the right atrium, separating the trabeculated…

Fig. 21.1 Frontal radiograph of the chest (left) with a coronal image from a PET CT (right) in a 1-year-old patient after heart transplantation. The chest x-ray shows a large…

Fig. 3.1 Color-coding scheme for segments of the heart. Segmented pieces include aorta (red), coronary arteries (neutral), pulmonary veins and left atrium (pink), left ventricle (salmon), right ventricle (purple), right…

Fig. 15.1 A T1-weighted image (T1WI) (left) and a fat-saturation sequence (right) from a cardiac MRI show a circumscribed mass in the right atrial wall (arrows) in the region of…

Fig. 26.1 Axial image (left) and 3D color-coded image (right) from a cardiac CTA show marked thickening of the left ventricular muscle, especially the interventricular septum (A), which narrows the…

Fig. 5.1 Coronal maximum intensity projection (MIP) image (a) and 3D image (b) shows a supravalvular aortic stenosis in a patient with William syndrome. Notice the characteristic hourglass shape of…

Fig. 1.1 Bedside color echocardiogram showing massive mitral regurgitation (blue arrow) Transthoracic echocardiography does have limitations. Ultrasound is user-dependent, so it is the least reproducible cross-sectional modality for imaging the…