Chest devices and artefacts

  • nipple stud chest x-ray
  • pcp nipple ring chest x-ray
  • chemotherapy line chest x-ray
  • portocath cystic fibrosis chest x-ray
  • Tunnelled line chest x-ray
  • oesophageal stent chest x-ray
  • endotracheal tube misplaced chest x-ray
  • sternal wires chest x-ray
  • mitral valve CT scout image
  • pacemaker hiding mass chest x-ray
  • pacemaker with lung mass chest x-ray
  • broken pacemaker chest x-ray

Oesophageal stent

Oesophageal stent

Note the following findings

  • Oesohpageal stent (arrow)
  • Sternotomy wires - previous coronary artery bypass graft CABG
  • Destroyed right fifth rib with associated large poorly defined soft tissue mass (orange)
  • Bilateral costophrenic blunting (*) due to pleural effusions

This patient had oesophageal cancer with metastases to bone (5th rib).

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