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    Mediastinal shift is an abnormal movement of the mediastinal structures toward one side of the chest cavity. A shift indicates a severe imbalance of pressures...
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    hemithorax and may cause mediastinal shift; effusions > 4 L may cause complete opacification of the hemithorax and mediastinal shift to the contralateral...
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  • deformity Mass effect Mathe's sign Mediastinal shift Mercedes Benz sign Mickey Mouse ears Mickey Mouse pelvis Midline shift (radiology) Misty mesentery sign...
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    affected pleural cavity. Khajotia, R (2012-04-30). "Respiratory Clinics: MEDIASTINAL SHIFT: A SIGN OF SIGNIFICANT CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE IN DIAGNOSIS...
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  • normal breathing. Surrounding structures may also shift. When severe enough to cause these shifts and hypotension, it is called a tension pneumothorax...
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  • build-up of air into one of the pleural cavities, which causes a mediastinal shift. When this happens, the great vessels (particularly the superior vena...
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    CPAM on chest radiograph in a newborn. Large cystic changes in the left lung, leading to a mediastinal shift to the right due to their mass effect....
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    oils, rubber sheets, paraffin wax, and gauze. As a result, the mediastinal and skeletal shift toward the volume loss side. Recent approach involves the implantation...
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    lung, possibly causing a pneumothorax. The concern about "mediastinal flutter" (the shift of the mediastinum with paradoxical diaphragm movement) does...
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    rib cage, which branches off from the T1-T12 thoracic spinal cord. The mediastinal pleurae and central portions of the diaphragmatic pleurae are innervated...
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    surgery for mediastinal extramedullary haematopoiesis. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2002;84:161-163 Calvin SH Ng, Song Wan, Anthony PC Yim. Paradigm shift in surgical...
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    W, Bluyssen PM, Boerstra A, Buonanno G, et al. (May 2021). "A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection" (PDF). Science. 372 (6543): 689–691...
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    minimal tissue shifts. Increase in venous pressure can be due to venous sinus thrombosis, heart failure, or obstruction of superior mediastinal or jugular...
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    observed in poultry. Antigenic shift is a sudden, drastic change in an influenza virus' antigen, usually HA. During antigenic shift, antigenically different...
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    died (at the age of 39) of injuries related to the exposure, including mediastinal cancer. In 1903, a shaken Edison said: "Don't talk to me about X-rays...
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    from the exact centerline; the septum is only considered deviated if the shift is substantial or causes problems. By itself, a deviated septum can go undetected...
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    as elevation of the diaphragm, shifting of the trachea, heart and mediastinum; displacement of the hilus and shifting granulomas. Atelectasis may be an...
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    a loss of lung volume. Additionally, the mediastinum may be physically shifted toward the affected side. A reduction in the size of one side of the chest...
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    Coughing can also be triggered by benign or malignant lung tumors or mediastinal masses. Through irritation of the nerve, diseases of the external auditory...
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  • the lungs, the neck and larynx, and the mediastinal space around the heart, causing interstititial or mediastinal emphysema, or it could enter the blood...
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    are rarer findings, not exceeding 20% of patients, and likely represent a shift from ABPA to CPA if accompanied by pleural thickening or fibrocavitary disease...
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    United States, asbestos manufacture stopped in 2002. Asbestos exposure thus shifted from workers in asbestos textile mills, friction product manufacturing...
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    approaches can be used to access the sinuses and these have generally shifted from external/extranasal approaches to intranasal endoscopic ones. The...
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    throughout their work shift. Patients with byssinosis due to dust inhalation will experience adverse symptoms when they begin their work shift on Monday which...
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    States team investigated the accident in 1992. Nearly all of the night-shift workers of a ceramics plant directly across the street from the biological...
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    hilar nodes (along the bronchi) on the same side as the tumor (N1), mediastinal or subcarinal lymph nodes (in the middle of the lungs, N2), or lymph...
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    Avon home. Lord Avon died from metastatic prostate cancer to bones and mediastinal nodes at his home, Alvediston Manor in Wiltshire, on 14 January 1977...
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    Consequent injuries may include arterial gas embolism, pneumothorax, mediastinal, interstitial and subcutaneous emphysemas, depending on where the gas...
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    pleural cavity is known as a pleural effusion. This may be due to fluid shifting from the bloodstream into the pleural cavity due to conditions such as...
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    Rare manifestations include lymph node disease resembling tuberculosis, mediastinal masses, pericardial effusion, mycotic aneurysm, and inflammation of the...
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