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ANATOMY OF CHEST WALLOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Pathologic processes that may involve the chest wall include: congenital and developmental anomalies, inflammatory and infectious diseases and soft-tissue and bone tumors.Chest wall can be the site of a secondary mass caused by metastasis from a distant malignancy. Many of these processes have characteristic radiologic appearances that allow definitive diagnosis. There must be a correlation between characteristic radiographic, CT, and MR imaging findings with pathologic findings when appropriate. The advent of cross-sectional imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has enabled precise localization of chest wall lesions and, in some cases, definitive diagnosis. The value of US in the chest wall has traditionally been limited to diagnose pleural effusion, evaluation of pleural-based lesions & differentiating between pleural fluid and pleural thickening.