RADIOLOGY OF THE
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
dr. Dhanti Erma, SpRad
THE LOWER RESPIRATORY
SYSTEM (= CHEST)
• RADIOLOGY OF THE :
• LUNG PARENCHYME
• PLEURA
• DIAPHRAGM
• MEDIASTINUM (TUMORS)
ANATOMY-1
LUNGS : LOBES & SEGMENS
ANATOMY-2
ANATOMY-3
ACINUS-PATCHIES
NORMAL INFLAMMATION
RADIOLOGICAL METHODS OF
INVESTIGATION
• PLAIN FILM/ CHEST X-RAYS
• CT SCAN
• MRI
• ULTRASONOGRAPHY (USG)
• NUCLEAR MEDICINE
RADIOLOGICAL METHODS OF
INVESTIGATION
• ARTERIOGRAPHY
• TOMOGRAPHY
• FLUOROSCOPHY
• BRONCHOGRAPHY
CHEST X-RAYS: VIEWS
• POSTEROANTERIOR (PA)ROUTINE
• LEFT LATERAL (LL/RL)
• RIGHT/LEFT ANTERIOR OBLIQUES
(RAO/LAO)
• RIGHT/LEFT LATERAL DECUBITUS
(RLD/LLD)
• TOP LORDOTIK
POSTERO-ANTERIOR (PA)
VIEW
LEFT LATERAL VIEW
RIGHT LATERAL VIEW
CHEST : LAO VIEW
CHEST: RAO VIEW
RIGHT/LEFT LATERAL
DECUBITUS
RLD LLD
L
L
DBD/DHF
D
TOP LORDOTIC VIEW
1
COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHYC
(CT) SCAN
MRI=MAGNETIC
RESONANCE IMAGING
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
TOMOGRAPHY
BASIC DEVOLOVEMENT OF CT
FLUOROSCOPHY
BRONCHOGRAPHY
NORMAL CHEST
NORMAL CHEST PARENCHYME : RADIOLUCENT
P
OLUSEN A1 PLEURA : INVISIBLE
P
P
A2 L
H
HE
T1
T2 HILAR
I
U : LEFT < RIGHT
L
R
DTI
A
LANCIP R
L
DIAPHRAGM : RIGHT > LEFT
SINUS PHRENICO COSTALIS <
NORMAL CHEST
PA=HILAR
RADIOLUCENT D=DIAPH
DISEASES OF THE LUNG
PARENCHYME (1)
• INFLAMMATORY
• LUNG ABSCESS
• ATELECTASIS
• LUNG EDEMA
DISEASES OF THE LUNG
PARENCHYME (2)
• EMPHYSEMA
• CHRONIC BRONCHITIS
• BRONCHIECTASIS
• RESPIRATORY DISTRESS OF
THE NEW BORN (RDN)
• LUNG TUMORS
INFLAMMATORY
• TUBERCULOSIS (TBC)
• PRIMARY TBC
• POST PRIMARY TBC
• NON TBC /ANON SPESIFIC
• PNEUMONIA
• BRONCHOPNEUMONIA
TERMINAL BRONCHIOLES
NORMAL-INFLAMMATORY
5 MM
5 5
5
N NORMAL INFLAMMATORY
N N P
ALVEOLI-PATCHIES
NORMAL PATHOLOGIS
ACINAR SHADOWS
NORMAL & INFLAMMATION
NORMAL
N PATCHIES
P
PRIMARY PULMONARY TBC
GHON FOCUS & RANKE
COMPLEX
PERIFERAL AIRWAYS &
ACINUS
22,2 CM22
2
PRIMARY TBC & PNEUMONIA
ACTIVE SIGNS:
TBC
• CHEST X-RAYS
• PATCHIES
• CONFLUENSOPACITIES
• CLOUDY HAZINESS
• CAVITY CAVITIES
TERMINAL BR.RESPIR BR.
ACINUS-CONFLUENS
PNEUMONIA
POST PRIMARY TBC(ADULT)
CAVITY INHOMOGENEOUS OPACITY
I
TBC : CAVITY AT LUL
POST PRIMARY TBC :
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• FIBROSISRETRACTION
• CALCIFICATIONS
INACTIVE (OLD) TBC:
FIBROSIS & CALCIFICATION
OLD / INACTIVE TBC
TBC COMPLICATION :
MILIAR TBC
SPONDYLITIS TBC & PARA
VERTEBRAL ABSCESS
PNEUMONIA ( NON TB)
• RELATIVELY HOMOGENOUS
CONSOLIDAZATION
• CLOUDY HAZINESS LOBAR
SEGMENTALS .
• SHARP BORDER
• AIR BRONCHOGRAM SIGN (ABS+/-)
• SILHOUETE SIGN (+/- )
CONSOLIDATION OF THE
LUNG PARENCHYME
PNEUMONIALOBAR/SEGMENS
OBSTRUCTIVE-PNEUMONITIS
CHEST X-RAYS : RML
PNEUMONIA (S SIGN +)
TENDENCY TO THE LOWER/ MIDDLE LOBES
AIR BRONCHOGRAM SIGN
(ABS)
PNEUMONIA/HMD
P
P P
PNEUMONIC ASPIRATION
RML PNEUMONIA
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA
(NON TB)
CHEST X-RAYS DENSITIES
D D
D DDD
D
• PATCHIES
• POORLY DEFINED
• INHOMOGENOUS
• IRREGULAR SCATTERED
C
TENDENCY TO THE LOWER LOBE
ACINUS-CONSOLIDATION
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA
ACINUS
NORMAL
N
BP
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA
RLLL
BILATERAL
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA
PATCHIES
P
IRREGULAR SCATTERED
I
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA
RIGHT PLEUROPNEUMONIA
PNEUMONIA
++ +
P+
PLEURAL EFFUSION
LUNG ABSCESS
• CAVITY WITH ONE CHAMBER
• OR NODUL WITH
• FLUID LEVEL,
• THICK WALL
• IRREGULAR BORDER
LUNG ABSCESS:
AIR FLUID LEVEL
LUL NODUL& ABSCESS
NODUL 33DAYS LATER
3
LUNG ABSCESS
ABSCESS : THICK &
IRREGULAR WALL
ATELECTASIS
• ALVEOLAR COLLAPS
• CAUSED BY :
• MECHANISMS:
• OBSTRUCTION / RESOR PTION
• COMPRESSION/PASSIVE/RELAXATION
• CONSTRICTION / CICATRIZATION
• ADEHESIVE /MICROATELECTASIS
MECHANISME OF
ATELECTASIS
DIRECT SIGN : ATELECTASIS
CHEST X-RAYS
DISPLACED SEPTA
LOSS OF AERATION / RADIOPACITY
OR LOCAL INCREASE IN DENSITY
VASCULAR & BRONCHIAL SIGNS :
CROWDING BRONCHIAL OR
VASCULAR MARKING
RUL ATELECTASIS
RML ATELECTASIS
INDIRECT SIGN :
ATELECTASIS
• HEMIDIAPHRAGM ELEVATION
• MEDIASTINUM DISPLACEMENT
• HILAR DISPLACEMENT
• COMPENSATORY OVERAERATION
• NARROWING OF THE RIB CAGE
RIGHT & LEFT MASSIVE
ATELECTASIS
AGENESIS OF THE RIGHT &
LEFT LUNG
LUNG EDEMA
• CHEST X-RAYS :
• EDEMA
• INTERSTITIAL
• ALVEOLAR
EDEMA:
RIGHT PERIHILAR HAZE
RADIOLOGY OF THE
ALVEOLAR EDEMA
• CHEST X-RAYS
• BATWING APPEARANCE
• BUTTERFLY APPEARANCE
• HAZINESS
EDEM :BATWING / UREMIC
LUNG
RADIOLOGY OF EDEMA:
BUTTERFLY APPEARANCE
CHEST X-RAYS EDEMA :
NODULES/HAZINESS
CPOD: LUNG EMPHYSEMA
NORMAL CHEST
LOCAL EMPHYSEMA :BULLAE
ALVEOLAR EMPHYSEMA
ALVEOLAR EMPHYSEMA
GIANT BULLAE
PNEUMATOCELE
LOBAR EMPHYSEMA
PREOPERATIVE POST OPERATIVE
BRONCHIECTASIS-ANATOMY
BROCHIECTASIS : HONEY
COMB APPEARANCE
BRONCHIECTASES
BRONCHOGRAPHY
BRONCHIECTASIS
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS
RESPIRATORY DISTRESS
OF THE NEW BORN (RDN)
• HMD :HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASES
• LACK OF SURFACTAN PRODUCTION
ALVEOLI COLLAPS
• PREMATUREHIPOXIA CAPILARY
BROKEN HBMEMBRANE
HYALINE MUCOSE OF TBDUCTUS
ALVEOLAR
RDN : HMD / IRDN
HIPOAERATION FINE GRANULARS
H
TUMORS / NEOPLASMS
CHEST X-RAYS
TUMORS
PRIMER
T SECUNDARY/
METASTASE
BENIGN MALIGNANT
BENIGN TUMOR
• CHEST X-RAYS
• SOLITER NODUL ( COIN LESION)
• CALCIFICATIONS
• SMOOTH CONTOUR / MARGIN
BENIGN TUMOR :
CALCIFICATION FORM
NODUL SOLITER
NN
/COIN LESION
MALIGNANT TUMOR
• CHEST X-RAYS :
• SOLITER NODUL
• NO (VERY RARE) CALCIFICATION
• IRREGULAR CONROUR/ MARGIN
• SPECIAL SIGN :
• GOLDEN SIGN
• RIGLER NOTCH SIGN
• EXCENTRIC CAVITY ECT
CT: ADENOCARCINOMA
BRONCHUS
LUNG CARC : VERTEBRAL
DESTRUCTION
TUMOR METASTASES:
HEMATOGENEOUSLY
• CHEST X-RAYS/CT
• MULTIPLE NODULS
CHEST TUMOR
METASTASE
CT : METASTASEMULTIPLE
NODULS
MEDIASTINAL TUMORS
2.THYMIC TU- 1
MORS 20% 1.NEUROGENIC
TUMORS 20%
22
3.BENIGN 4. LIMPHONO-
CYST 20% NODUS 15%
2
2
MEDIASTINAL TUMORS
5.TERATODERMOID
1
TUMORS 10%
33
6.THYROID TUMORS 5%
7.MESENCHYMAL 5%
8.MISCELLANEOUS MASSES 5%
RADIOLOGY OF THE
MEDIASTINAL TUMORS
• CHEST X-RAYS
• SHARP BORDER
• INCOMPLETE TUMOR BORDER
• TAPERING MARGINS
• COVEXITY TOWARD LUNG
• NOT AFFECT ONPLEURA &RIBS
RADIOLOGY OF MEDIASTINAL
TUMORS
MEDIASTINAL POSTERIOR
TUMOR : NEUROFIBROMA
PLEURAL SPACE
• PLEURAL EFFUSION
• HAEMOTHORAX
• PYOTHORAX / EMPHYEMA
• PNEUMOTHORAX
• HYDROPNEUMOTHORAX
MILD & LAMELLAR PLEURAL
EFFUSION
BLUNT SINUS LAMELLAR EFFUSION
LEFT SUBPULMONARY
EFFUSIONLLD
RO: MODERATE PLEURAL
EFFUSION
• CHEST X-RAYS: ERECT VIEW
• WATER DENSITY
• MENISCUS SIGN
• SINUS & DIAPHRAGM INVISIBLE
MODERATE & MASSIVE
PLEURAL EFFUSION
PNEUMOTHORAX
• AIR IN THE PLEURAL SPACE
• CHEST X-RAYS
• HYPERLUSENHYPERAERATION
• AVASCULER
• MEDIAL LUNG COLLAPS
• WHITE LINE OF THE VISCERAL
PLEURA
LEFT TENSION
PNEUMOTHORAX
TBC &
HYDROPNEUMOTHORAX
RADIOLOGY OF THE
DIAPHRAGMA
• PHRENIC PALSY
• MORGAGNI DIAPHRAMATIC HERNIA
• BOCHDALEK DIAPHRAGMATIC
HERNIA
• TRAUMATIC HERNIA
• CONGENITAL/AGENESIS DIAPHRAGM
HERNIA
PHRENIC PALSY / PARALYSE
CONGENITAL DIAPH HERNIA
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