Imaging of the chest is not only valuable in respiratory disorders, but it also gives valuable insights into specific disease conditions of heart. Given below are specific appearances that heart diseases make on an X ray film.
- Coeur en Sabot /Boot shaped heart – Tetralogy of Fallot
- Pear/Money bag/purse – Pericardial Effusion
- Box shaped heart – Ebstein’s anomaly
- Egg on side – TGA
- Snowman/figure of 8 – TAPVC
- Scimtar sign – TAPVC.
- Wide Vascular Pedicle – Corrected TOGV
- Sitting Duck shaped Heart- Persistant Truncus Arteriosus
- Flask shaped Heart/Leather bottle with Pulm. Oligemia- Pericardial Effusion
- Snowman/Figure of 8/ Cottage leaf of Bread heart- TAPVC
- Shaggy Heart – Pertusis
- Figure of 3 (CXR)/Reversed E sign(Ba swallow) – Coarctation of Aorta
- Hilar Dance sign(Fluoroscopy) – ASD
- Egg in cup – Constrictive pericarditis.
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