Pericardial fat pads
Updates to Case Attributes
Main differential diagnoses for the chest radiograph is is right pericardial fat pad or right pericardial cyst.
The chest CT scan confirmconfirms the right sided pericardial fat pad and obviously detects the left pericardial fat pad, which was not clearly seen in the radiograph.
-<p>Main differential diagnoses for chest radiograph is right pericardial fat pad or right pericardial cyst.</p><p>The chest CT scan confirm the right sided pericardial fat pad and obviously detects the left pericardial fat pad, which was not clearly seen in the radiograph.</p>- +<p>Main differential diagnoses for the chest radiograph is right pericardial fat pad or right pericardial cyst.</p><p>The chest CT scan confirms the right sided pericardial fat pad and obviously detects the left pericardial fat pad, which was not clearly seen in the radiograph.</p>
Updates to Study Attributes
Increased amount of fat in both right as well as left cardiophrenic regions. A few flecks of calcifications are also appreciable in thesethe pericardial fat. A few subcentimeter insignificant mediastinal lymph nodes are seen. A few subsegmental atelectatic bands are seen in left lower lobe. No suspicious pulmonary mass or nodularity is seen. No pleural / pericardial/pericardial effusion or pneumothorax / pneumomediastinum/pneumomediastinum is seen. Morphology of the bony rib cage is intact.