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Chapter 30 Radiographic Evaluation of the Chest

Figure 30-37 Radiographic anatomy of the pulmonary subsegments. Schematic representations of characteristic
patterns of consolidation for each of the pulmonary subsegments are shown. A. Left lung. B. Right lung.

Apical Apical
posterior
Right
Posterior
upper
lobe Anterior Left
upper
Anterior lobe
Superior
(lingula)
Right
lower Superior
lobe Inferior
(lingula)
Right
Lateral
middl e
lobe Medial

Anterior
Superior
basal
Medial Anteromedial
Right
basal basal Left
lower
Lateral lower
lobe
basal Lateral lobe
basal
Posterior
basal Posterior
basal

Figure 30-38 Topographic anatomy of the tracheobronchial tree and pulmonary subsegments. A. Tracheobronchial
tree. B . Left anterior. C . Left lateral. D . Left cutaway. E . Left posterior. F . Right anterior. G . Right lateral. H . Right
cutaway. I . Right posterior.