Thoracic Key

Fig 1. Extraparenchymal mass forms an obtuse angle with the chest wall in a patient with a solitary plasmacytoma. Note the bone destruction indicating the origin of the tumor outside…

Fig 1 a, b. Left upper lobe atelectasis. Postera-anterior (PA) chest radiograph (a) shows left upper lobe atelectasis manifesting as a vague left upper lung zone opacity with elevation of…

Fig 1 a, b. Teratoma. Posteroanterior chest X-ray shows a left anterior mediastinal mass (a). Axial CT demonstrates a large soft-tissue mass with a fat component (b, arrow) The incidence…

Fig 1 a, b. Cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) tagging. Magnetic strips are placed in the heart before contraction (diastole, a) and then followed throughout the cardiac cycle (systole, b) to…

Fig 1 a–d. A 53-year-old man who underwent chest radiography for pain in the right axilla. Posteroranterior (a) and lateral (b) radiographs were interpreted as normal. With hindsight bias from…

Fig 1 a–c. Rupturing thoracic aortic aneurysm. a Unenhanced computed tomography (CT) demonstrates a high-attenuation hematoma in the right pleural space and middle mediastinum. There is an aneurysm of the…

Fig 1 a–f. Types of calcification. Benign: a central, b central multifocal, c uniform, d lamellar. Indeterminate: e eccentric, f stippled Fig 2. Pulmonary hamartoma. Intralesional fat and popcorn calcification…

T Primary Tumor T1 Tumor ⩽3 cm in greatest dimension, surrounded by lung or visceral pleura, without bronchoscopic evidence of invasion more proximal than a lobar bronchus (i.e., not in…

Fig. 1. MRI standard protocol and findings according to tissue characteristics MR Analysis In the Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) lexicon published in 2013, Chapter IV is devoted to…

Fig 1. Simulation of reduced scan length and estimated organ doses in pulmonary CT angiography to rule out pulmonary embolism, in which the lung apex and base are excluded. A…