Fetal Chest (Excluding Heart)

 

  Normal Chest

 Diaphragmatic Abnormalities
      * Bochdalek Hernia

      * Morgagni Hernia
      * Hiatus Hernia
      * Diaphragm Agenesis

      * Eventration

  Pulmonary Hypoplasia

  Pleural Fluid Collections

  Intrathoracic Mass

  * Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
  * Bronchopulmonary Sequestration
  * Congenital Lobar Emphysema

 

  Foregut Abnormalities
      * Bronchogenic Cyst
      * Laryngeal Obstruction
      * Tracheal Obstruction
      * Tracheo-esophageal Fistula  

      * Esophageal Atresia
      * Bronchial Atresia
      * Neurenteric Cyst
      * Gastroenteric Cyst
      * Obstructing Mucus Plug

  Cardiac and Mediastinal Masses


     * Pericardial Teratoma
     * Thoracic neuroblastoma

     * Mediatinal lymphangioma.

     * Posterior Mediastinal Masses.
     * Abnormalities of the Thymus.

 Chest Wall Abnormalities
      * Masses (hamartoma, hemangioma)
      * Thoracic Dysplasia
      * Skeletal Dysplasia
      * Rib Morphology

      * Sternum – normal and abnormal

Tables of Differential Diagnosis

  1. Mediastinal shift
  2. Solid Echogenic Lung Mass
  3. Cystic Lung Mass. 
  4. Mixed solid / cystic Lung Mass

 

Video images of chest pathology