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Chest x-ray showing fractured ribs and pneumothorax

Chest Pain & Trauma

The chest pain presentation is combined with the chest trauma presentation to cover the following topics:

Chest Pain

  • Normal chest
  • Acute pulmonary oedema
  • Interstitial pulmonary oedema
  • Coronary atheroma
  • Calcified cardiac aneurysm
  • Aortic stenosis
  • Mitral stenosis
  • Aortic dissection
  • Oesophageal pain
  • Pneumomediastinum
  • Pneumothorax
  • Pneumonia and basal effusion
  • Pulmonary embolism

Chest Trauma

  • Skeletal and pneumothorax
  • Ruptured diaphragm
  • Ruptured bronchus
  • Injuries to the lung
  • Air and fat embolism
  • ARDS
  • Aortic injury
  • Thoracic spine fracture