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This next case is a 32-year-old gentleman who comes into the ER after
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a street party melee complaining of shortness of breath.
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There is a PA and a lateral view of the chest that were ordered.
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And so, again, in terms of looking at it
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in our systematic fashion, take a look at the lung.
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So the left lung is essentially clear.
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The right lung, there are no parenchymal opacities.
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There's no pneumothorax, no pleural effusion.
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We look at the mediastinum, the trachea is midline patent.
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We see the initial takeoffs and those look fine.
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When you take a look at the heart size, normal.
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When we look at the hilar structures, again, they're normal in size.
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What we do notice is this rounded opacity here in the right hilum.
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Upon initial view, you may think that this is similar to one of the gown snaps.
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However, it does have a different configuration.
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You'll see that the gown snaps are oriented differently at different times.
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And so sometimes on a PA and lateral,
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you're going to get two different views of a single structure.
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So it may be helpful to always look at your lateral view,
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which will take a look at in a second, to really understand what this structure is.
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But it's a little bit denser than the other snaps.
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And when we look at the lateral view,
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what we can see is one, that it is actually not sitting external to the patient like
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the snaps would be, but it's actually sitting inside the patient.
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And this is not necessarily the configuration of a snap.
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And this is a patient who actually inhaled a piece of a pen that was in his mouth
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and there was, during the melee, some aspiration that took place.
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So in terms of going back to the frontal view,
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again, this is located in the area of the right lower lobe airway,
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which is where we expect most commonly for aspiration events to take place
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because of the orientation of the right lower lobe bronchus.
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And again, we know that it's not external like some of these other structures are
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because when we look at the lateral, it locates inside the lung.
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And so, this is an example of a right lower lobe aspiration.
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