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Radiology

Pediatric Chest

Built from Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology

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10 sections · 149 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

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    • What this deck covers

    2 slides

  2. 02

    The Pediatric Chest Radiograph

    Separating normal from abnormal in a child's chest

    • Reading the pediatric chest
    • Expiration mimics disease
    • Expiratory versus repeat normal chest radiograph
    • Single view versus two views
    • Repeating a chest radiograph
    • Heart size on the chest radiograph
    • Cardiac configuration pitfalls
    • The aorta on the pediatric CXR
    • The thymus in infants
    • Thymus on chest radiograph and MRI
    • Thymic wave sign and notch
    • Normal right thymic lobe and the wave sign
    • Thymic involution and rebound
    • Rebound thymic enlargement after surgery
    • Rebound thymic enlargement — asymmetric
    • Lung volume and rib counting
    • Asymmetric lung attenuation
    • Air trapping on decubitus views
    • Hyperlucent and hyperdense lung
    • Swyer–James syndrome (bronchiolitis obliterans)
    • The normal pediatric trachea
    • Tracheal buckling
    • Normal tracheal buckling
    • Tracheal impressions and vascular rings
    • Right-sided tracheal impression from a right aortic arch

    25 slides

  3. 03

    The Neonatal Chest

    Four lung-disease patterns, air leaks, and lines and tubes

    • Neonatal lung disease framework
    • Four neonatal lung disease patterns
    • Surfactant deficiency disease
    • Surfactant deficiency disease
    • Meconium aspiration
    • Meconium aspiration
    • Retained lung fluid
    • Retained lung fluid
    • Neonatal pneumonia and hemorrhage
    • Neonatal pneumonia
    • Group B streptococcal pneumonia
    • Group B streptococcal pneumonia
    • Bronchopulmonary dysplasia — old and new
    • Old bronchopulmonary dysplasia
    • New bronchopulmonary dysplasia
    • Pneumothorax in the neonate
    • Bilateral pneumothoraces in a supine neonate
    • Tension pneumothorax without lung collapse
    • Skin fold versus pneumothorax
    • Skin fold simulating pneumothorax
    • Pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium
    • Pneumomediastinum with elevated thymus
    • Pulmonary interstitial emphysema
    • How pulmonary interstitial emphysema develops
    • Pulmonary interstitial emphysema
    • Endotracheal tube position
    • Umbilical catheters
    • Umbilical venous and arterial catheters
    • Umbilical arterial catheter placement
    • Umbilical venous catheter course
    • Umbilical venous catheter course
    • Useful measurements for catheter tip position
    • ECMO catheters
    • ECMO catheters in a newborn

    34 slides

  4. 04

    Congenital Lung Malformations

    Cysts, sequestrations, and airway anomalies present at birth

    • Congenital lung malformations overview
    • Fetal MRI of congenital pulmonary airway malformation
    • The feeding vessel is the key feature
    • Congenital lung lesion — the key decision
    • Congenital pulmonary airway malformation
    • CPAM types
    • Type 1 congenital pulmonary airway malformation
    • Sequestration
    • Intralobar sequestration with feeding vessel
    • Foregut duplication cysts
    • Mediastinal bronchogenic cyst
    • Congenital lobar overinflation
    • Congenital lobar overinflation
    • Other parenchymal abnormalities
    • Scimitar syndrome
    • Scimitar (hypogenetic lung) syndrome
    • Bronchial atresia
    • Bronchial atresia with mucocele
    • Tracheal and bronchial anomalies
    • Tracheal stenosis and complete rings
    • Complete tracheal rings

    21 slides

  5. 05

    Pulmonary Infection

    Pneumonia patterns, the organisms, and childhood tuberculosis

    • Pneumonia in children — role of the CXR
    • Viral versus bacterial patterns
    • Viral versus bacterial CXR pattern
    • The viral pattern
    • Airways disease pattern on chest radiograph
    • The bacterial pattern
    • Bacterial pneumonia with consolidation
    • How well do the patterns predict?
    • Age predicts the organism
    • Common organisms causing community-acquired pneumonia
    • Chlamydia pneumonia
    • Chlamydia pneumonia
    • RSV and bronchiolitis
    • Mycoplasma pneumonia
    • Pneumococcal pneumonia and round pneumonia
    • Round pneumonia
    • Separating round pneumonia from a mass
    • Primary tuberculosis in children
    • Primary tuberculosis
    • Imaging tuberculosis in children

    20 slides

  6. 06

    Masses, Mediastinum, and Chest Wall

    Tumors, nodules, and where they sit in the chest

    • Lung masses in children
    • Benign and malignant lung tumors
    • Lung nodules and cysts
    • Mediastinal divisions
    • Mediastinal divisions
    • The thymus in the mediastinum
    • Anterior and middle mediastinal lesions
    • Posterior mediastinum — neurogenic tumors
    • Mediastinal lesions in children
    • Neuroblastoma with left paraspinal widening
    • Chest wall lesions
    • Chest wall lesions in children

    12 slides

  7. 07

    Diffuse Lung Disease and Systemic Conditions

    Childhood interstitial lung disease, CF, sickle cell, and collagen disease

    • Childhood interstitial lung disease
    • Causes of diffuse (interstitial) lung disease
    • Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy
    • Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (NEHI)
    • Surfactant protein mutations
    • Surfactant protein mutation with crazy paving
    • Alveolar growth abnormality
    • Alveolar growth abnormality
    • Immunodeficiencies
    • Cystic fibrosis
    • Sickle cell and collagen vascular disease
    • Polymyositis with reticular ground glass

    12 slides

  8. 08

    Lung Trauma

    Spontaneous pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and blunt chest injury

    • Spontaneous pneumothorax
    • Pneumomediastinum in children
    • Blunt chest trauma
    • Aortic injury and CT strategy

    4 slides

  9. 09

    The Upper Airway

    Croup, epiglottitis, and other airway infections and anomalies

    • Evaluating the upper airway
    • Croup
    • Croup
    • Bacterial tracheitis
    • Bacterial tracheitis
    • Epiglottitis (supraglottitis)
    • Epiglottitis
    • Retropharyngeal abscess
    • Laryngomalacia
    • Obstructive sleep apnea

    10 slides

  10. 10

    Key Takeaways

    A short revision summary of the pediatric chest

    • Pediatric chest — key takeaways
    • References
    • References
    • References
    • References
    • References
    • References
    • References
    • Brant and Helms' Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology

    9 slides