Is the width of corresponding intercostal spaces the same in the right and the left side?
Answer. Compare the 7th intercostal spaces on the right and left. Image 2.2: Soft tissue. (Click on this thumbnail) Without clicking, use your cursor or finger to trace the outline of non-skeletal radiopaque structures inside the rib cage. Click to confirm your ideas. Image 2.3: Lung fields. (Click on this thumbnail) Look at the lung fields as you have done in earlier films. Note the pattern of radiopacity due to the blood vessels. Compare the right and left lung fields. 4. Does this pattern extend to the rib cage on each side? Answer. Without clicking, run your cursor (or finger) around the outline of the left lung. Without clicking, run your cursor (or finger) around the outline of the right lung. Does it extend all the way laterally to the rib cage? Click along the most lateral border of each lung to verify your answer. 5.Is there a space lateral to the border of the left lung? Is there space lateral to the border of the right lung? Verify by clicking. 6. What fills this space? 7. W
