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Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition
Published on: March 3, 2023
A rib abnormality mimicking pulmonary nodule: a pitfall in the plain chest x-ray
Yeliz Akturk1, Serra Ozbal Günes, Baki Hekimoglu
1Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital. yelizakturk@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
The ribs show a wide range of normal and pathologic radiographic appearences as well as congenital variations. Intrathoracic ribs are isolated and rare anomalies. They are usually super-numerary, more often right-sided, and involve the middle part of the thorax. We describe a case with intrathorasic rib abnormality mimicking a peripheral metastatic lung nodule in the plain chest x-ray and emphasize the use of coronal and sagittal reformatted images in thorasic imaging. Utilisation of multiplanar reformatted images in chest computerised tomography increase diagnostic quality.
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