APLC

Question 1

Cervical rib

Answer 1

Bone articulating with bone - C7 articulation with Rib

TOS

Question 2

Never put down anything for

Answer 2

C4 or higher

Question 3

Check bodies for alterations in color and shape

Answer 3

Color - white = blastic, pagets; dark = mm, lytic

Shape = PFC

Question 4

Check disc spaces and uncinates

Answer 4

Uncinate arthrosis - goes laterally instead of pointy bat ears

Question 5

Number one cause of IVF encroachment

Answer 5

Uncinate arthrosis

Question 6

Check spinouses

Answer 6

Missing
Spina bifida
Fracture

Question 7

Check tracheal air shadow for deviation

Answer 7

ST swelling
Pneumothorax
Atelectasis
Enlarged Thyroid

Never make lung dx from any other film than PA chest

Question 8

Check soft tissue

Answer 8

Carotid artery calcification

Lymph node calcification

Question 9

Carotid artery calcification

Answer 9

Calcifications all line up in V or Y shape

Question 10

Lymph node calcification

Answer 10

Scattered radio-opacities

Question 11

Rare congenital skeletal abnormality where a person has one shoulder blade that sits higher on the back than the other

Answer 11

Sprengel’s deformity

Question 12

Sprengels deformity

Answer 12

Young females
Klippel-feil
Omovertebral bones
Cervical ribs
Spina bifida

Question 13

Omovertebral bone

Answer 13

An abnormal bone that extends from teh medial border of the scapula to the SP, lamina, or TP of C5, C6, or C7