Sentences with phrase «mediastinum on»
There is relatively uniform widening of the cranial and caudal mediastinum on the dorsoventral view.
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Heidenreich et al evaluated women who received prior RT doses > 35 Gy to the mediastinum for the presence of occult coronary artery disease and discovered elevated rates of stress - induced perfusion defects or wall motion abnormalities on echocardiogram.
Hyper extension in the thoracic spine exerts pressure on posterior mediastinum - a part of the thorax which when pressured creates an increase in the sympathetic tone of the autonomic nervous system (responsible for the fight or flight mechanism)- this is not a good thing.
On rare occasions ectopic thyroid tissue (abnormal migration of thyroid tissue during embryonic development) can give rise to lesions in the tongue, ventral neck, cranial mediastinum and heart base.
The normal mediastinum should be no more than twice the width of the spine on the DV view.
Remember that the mediastinum extends from the spine to the sternum, so it is superimposed on the lung fields on the lateral view.
On the lateral view, the heart and ventral diaphragm are poorly visualized due to silhouetting with soft tissue opacity material within the mediastinum.