Differential Diagnosis Final UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Differential Diagnosis
Differential Diagnosis Final UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
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Chest X-Rays - CORRECT ANSWER- Chest X-rays
PA View - CORRECT ANSWER- x-ray view from back to front. Patient is normally
standing. Heart is closer to film and less magnified.
AP View - CORRECT ANSWER- x-ray view ...
Differential Diagnosis Final UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Chest X-Rays - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Chest X-rays
PA View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- x-ray view from back to front. Patient is normally
standing. Heart is closer to film and less magnified.
AP View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- x-ray view from front to back. Patient is normally
lying down. Heart is farther away, so tends to be magnified. This is the normal type for
portable x-rays.
Lateral View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- x-ray from side. Finds abnormalities hidden by
front view
Right Lateral decubitus View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- finds pleural effusions, air-fluid
levels. Taken on right side.
Lordotic View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- great view of upper lobes, used to r/o cancer or
TB. Taken around shoulder area.
Kerly B lines - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- lines that are perpendicular to pleura. Indicates
excessive fluid, such as CHF
Alveolar Infiltrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- looks like fluffy white clouds caused by
fluid in the alveoli. Present in pulmonary edema
, Interstitial infiltrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- small, well-defined reticular (net like
pattern), nodular or reticulonodular opacities due to fibrosis, fluid or inflammatory by
products. Looks like honeycombs
Air Bronchogram - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When something of fluid density fills the
alveoli, air in the bronchus becomes visible. Seen in pulmonary edema fluid, blood, gastric
aspirate and inflammatory exudate
Common Interstitial Lung Diseases - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cancer
Sarcoidosis
Cystic Fibrosis
Asbestosis
Atelectasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -the loss of lung volume.
-associated ipsilateral shift
-linear, wedge shaped apex at hilum
pneumonia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -normal or increased volume
-no shift
-air space process
-not center centered at hilum
TB - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -represented by consolidation, adenopathy and pleural
effusion.
-Radiography features: focal patchy airspace disease, cotton wool shadows, *cavitation,
*fibrosis, *nodal calcifications
-MOST COMMON IN THE POSTERIOR SEGMENTS OF THE UPPER LOBES AND
SUPERIOR SEGMENTS OF THE LOWER LOBES
Pleural Effusion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- common causes: CFH, infection, trauma, PE,
tumor, auto immune disease, and Renal Failure. Radiography features: fluid density in a
dependent potion of the lung. Diaphragm arch disappears
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