General approach

• Check the technical aspects
  • Patient name/DOB/hospital number, date, projection, rotation, penetration, inspiration
• Cardiac shadow
  • Size, shape, calcification
• Mediastinum
  • Position, width, outline, density, tracheobronchial tree
• Hila
  • Position, size, density, concave
• Lungs
  • Size, transradiancy, fissures, focal or generalised pulmonary infiltration
• Pleural spaces
  • Effusions, soft tissue masses, calcification, pneumothorax
• Bones
  • Fractures, lytic or sclerotic lesions
• Soft tissues
  • Masses, calcification

Image Gallery

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Normal CXRs

Abnormal CXRs

Acknowledgement: revise4finals would like to thank Dr Niall Moore (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford) for providing the images and explanations used in this section.