Normal junctional lines – detail image
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Normal junctional lines – detail image
- These normal mediastinal lines are not visible in all normal chest X-rays
- Knowing what they represent can help avoid confusion
- The junctional lines are the point of contact of the left and right lungs
- The right para-tracheal line is the edge of the trachea contrasted against air in the trachea and the adjacent right lung
- The azygo-oesophageal line marks the medial edge of the azygo-oesophageal recess – the point of contact between the medial edge of the right lung and soft tissue structures of the mediastinum (oesophagus and azygos vessels)
- Read more about mediastinal contours
Normal vessels
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Normal vessels
- Overlying vascular structures often makes assessment of hilar regions difficult
- Hilar vessels can have the appearance of lung nodules
- Here no ‘nodule’ seen peripheral to the hilar regions
- (See detail below)
Normal vessels - detail
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Normal vessels - detail
- (Detail of image above)
- These are normal vessels seen end-on – in the plane of the X-ray beam
- Read more about hilar structures