Ch 6

Question 1

A mother states that she found her 18 month old child choking near an open can of peanuts. Which set of Chess radiographs would most likely suggest Airway obstruction.

Answer 1

Frontal inspiratory and frontal forced expiratory

Question 2

The normal thymus has a characteristic appearance which of the following radiographic findings?

Answer 2

Appearance of a sale and wavy margins

Question 3

Hemothorax is suspected on the left in a child portable radio graph from the Intensive Care Unit which of the following May better image and confirm a suspected pneumothorax?

Answer 3

Cross table lateral
Upright frontal
Right side down decubitus

Question 4

Sub glottic edema causing a church steeple appearance of the trachea on the frontal neck radiograph is characteristic of which infection

Answer 4

Croup

Question 5

Before intubation, the chest radiograph of a premature newborn reveals low lung volumes and diffuse ground glass station of the lungs. These radiographic findings are most characteristic of

Answer 5

Respiratory distress syndrome

Question 6

The initial chest radiograph of a neonate in severe respiratory distress and having a scaphoid abdomen reveals multiple round air filled structures in the left side of the chest displacing the mediastinum to the right. The most likely etiology is

Answer 6

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Question 7

Left lower lobe collapse AKA atelectasis is associated with which of the following radiographic findings?

Answer 7

Loss of the left hemidiaphragm border increased retrocardiac density
“spine sign”

Question 8

Pneumatoceles are occasionally seen as a complication of which of the following infections?

Answer 8

Staphylococcal

Question 9

Which of the following is a Hallmark of cystic fibrosis and is not also seen with asthma

Answer 9

Bronchiectasis

Question 10

CT scans of the chest in pediatric trauma patient are not routinely obtain because of

Answer 10

The high radiation dose