Table 8-4 Deformities of the Thorax

Question 1

Normal Adult thorax width

Answer 1

Thorax in norma dult is wider than it deep

Question 2

Normal adult diameter

Answer 2

lateral diameter is larger than its anteroposterior diameter

Question 3

What is Pectus Excavatum? What kind of heart condition can it cause?

Answer 3

Funnel CHest

Depression in lower portion of sternum

Compression of heart and great vessels may cuase murmurs

Question 4

What is barrel chest?

Whag age is this condition normal?

What other disease is associated with this conditin

Answer 4

increased anteroposterior diameter.

Shape is normal during infancy,

often accompanies aging and COPD

Question 5

What is Pectus Carinatum. What happens to costal cartilage adjacent to sternum

Answer 5

Pigeon Chest

Sternum is dipslaced anteriorly,

INcreasing anteroposterior diamter

Costal cartilages adjacent to the protruding sternum are depressed

Question 6

What is traumatic flail chest? What causes it?

Wha thappens during inspiration? Expiration?

Answer 6

Multiiple rib fractures may result in paradoxical movements of the thorax

As descent of the diaphragm decreases intrathoracic pressure , on insipriation the injured area caves INWARD

Expriation, it moves outward

Question 7

What is Thoracic Kyphoscoliosis

Answer 7

Abnormal spinal curvatures and vertebral rotation defrom the chest.

Distortion of the udneryling lugns may make interpreation of lung findings very difficult

Question 8

What is Thoracic Kyphoscoliosis

Answer 8

Abnormal spinal curvatures and vetebral rotation defrom the chest.

Distortion of the udneryling lugns may make interpreation of lung findings very difficult