•Chest CT landmarks
It can be daunting to read a chest CT
Step 1: Forget looking for pathology, assess your landmarks (bones, organs, etc.), and gain your bearings first.
Step 2: Once you know where you are in the chest, you can evaluate everything in view one at a time.
Step 3: Take your time!
•ProTip:
It’s very helpful if you can “drive”
Unsure what a certain structure is on a chest CT?
Ask to take the mouse and scroll up and down to see the whole structure
This can greatly help identify where you are and what you are looking at
•Structures to always identify on a chest CT
•These will help orient yourself
•Assessing each piece, one-by-one, will make sure your evaluation of an image is thorough and complete
•ProTip: It looks like attendings just “scan” an image and know the pathology. Nope. They always go through and assess each structure at each level.
•(With experience, it becomes easier and faster)
•Structures to identify (imaging presented from head to toe); part 1
•Structures to identify (imaging presented from head to toe); part 2
•Structures to identify (imaging presented from head to toe); part 3
•Structures to identify (imaging presented from head to toe); part 4
•Structures to identify (imaging presented from head to toe); part 5
•Structures to identify (imaging presented from head to toe); part 6
