1/ Gooood morning, #MedTwitter, and welcome to another edition of #ReadingRoom.
Dim the lights, think about your system for reading chest x-rays, and get ready to correlate clinically!
Dim the lights, think about your system for reading chest x-rays, and get ready to correlate clinically!
2/ What are those faint linear opacities highlighted on the previous film called?
3/ Itβs true that the most common cause of Cardi B lines is wet lungs, but what are these lines, and why do they occur?
4/ Anything that makes the septa of the secondary pulmonary lobule more prominent will cause septal, or Kerley B, lines.
5/ In the images below, you see normal lungs and can compare them to wet lungs and see how the pulmonary edema exaggerates the anatomy of the secondary pulmonary lobule.
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7/ To recap: Kerley B lines, aka septal lines, occur when venous or lymphatic distention or connective tissue proliferation make the normally fine septa of the secondary pulmonary lobule more prominent.
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