Anatomy
Lies in a horizontal plane above the first rib.
What is the clavicle?
Inflammation of the bursa
What is bursitis?
Joint space between the humeral head and glenoid cavity are evidenced.
What is the Grashey Method?
CR is directed 1" inferior to the coracoid process.
What is the antero posterior projection of the shoulder?
This structure runs parallel with the vertebral column
What is the medial border of the scapula?
Formed by two bones, the clavicle and the scapula.
What is the shoulder girdle?
Loss of bone density
What is osteoporosis?
Lateral image of the shoulder and proximal humerus is projected through the thorax.
What is the Lawrence Method?
CR is directed 2" medial and 2" inferior to the superolateral border of the shoulder.
What is the AP oblique or Grashey Method?
This structure extends from the superior angle to the coracoid process.
What is the superior angle?
Situated on the anterior surface of the bone, immediately below the anatomic neck.
What is the lesser tubercle?
Disruption in the continuity of the bone
What is a fracture?
Inferosuperior axial image of the proximal humerus, scapulohumeral joint, lateral portion of the coracoid process and AC articulation.
What is the Lawrence Method (Inferosuperior Axial Projection)?
CR is perpendicular to the IR at the level of the surgical neck.
What is the transthoracic lateral method? (Lawrence Method)
This structure is formed by the junction of the superior and medial borders.
What is the superior angle?
Lies between the glenoid cavity and the head of he humerus
What is the scapulohumeral articulation?
Transfer of a cancerous lesion from one area to another
What is metastasis?
Bilateral images of the AC joints to demonstrate dislocation, separation, and function of the joints.
What is the Pearson Method?
CR enters horizontally through the axilla to the AC region of the AC articulation and is directed medially 15-30 deg.
What is the inferosuperior axial projection of the shoulder?
This structure is divided into two portions by a prominent spinous process.
What is the dorsal (posterior) surface?
Largest bursae of the shoulder
What is the subacromial bursa?
Displacement of a bone from the joint space.
What is dislocation?
Tangential images of the interrubercular groove from from superimposition of the surrounding shoulder structures.
What is the Fisk Modification or Tangential Projection?
CR is directed perpendicularly to the midline of the body at the level of the AC joints for a single projection.
What is the Pearson Method?
This structure arises at the superior third of the medial border.
What is the crest of the spine?