Normal chest x-ray - lobes (illustration)
Case contributed by Phillip Marsh
Diagnosis not applicable
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Marsh P, Normal chest x-ray - lobes (illustration). Case study, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 24 Mar 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-58938
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At the time the case was submitted for publication Phillip Marsh had no recorded disclosures.
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14 Mar 2018
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Red: right upper lobe (RUL)
Green: right middle lobe (RML)
Purple: right lower lobe (RLL)
Yellow: left upper lobe (LUL)
Blue: left lower lobe (LLL)
Case Discussion
Normal chest x-ray shows normal lobar anatomy.
19 articles feature images from this case
- Right lower lobe consolidation
- Right middle lobe consolidation
- Left upper lobe
- Lung
- Left lower lobe
- Left upper lobe collapse
- Right middle lobe collapse
- Right upper lobe collapse
- Right lower lobe collapse
- Left lower lobe collapse
- Right upper lobe
- Right lower lobe
- Right middle lobe
- Right lung
- Left lung
- Assessment of lungs, pleura and airways on chest x-ray (approach)
- Right upper lobe consolidation
- Left upper lobe consolidation
- Left lower lobe consolidation
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