General format

• Bowel gas pattern
  • Large and small bowel and free gas
• Abnormal gas collections
  • Biliary gas, retroperitoneal gas, bowel wall gas
• Abnormal calcification
  • Gall stones, renal tract, pancreas, vascular
• Viscera
  • Liver, spleen, kidneys
• Retroperitoneum and abdominal wall
  • Psoas lines, abdominal wall muscles and peritoneum
• Bones
  • Lumbar spine, pelvis, proximal femora, ribs

Image gallery

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Normal AXRs

Abnormal AXRs

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