Chest curriculum

Last revised by Liz Silverstone on 2 Feb 2024

The chest curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent the core chest knowledge.

Topics pertaining to the lungs, mediastinum, and pleura, but excluding the skeletal structures (see musculoskeletal curriculum), heart (see cardiac curriculum), and great vessels (see vascular curriculum).

Core anatomical topics include:

The chest is primarily investigated with plain films and CT.

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