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Surface marking radiology abdomen
1. Surface Marking & Radiology
of Abdomen
Dr. Mushfiqul Hoque
Lecturer
Dhaka National Medical College
2. Topics for surface marking
• Transpyloric plane
• Fundus of the Gall Bladdder
• Stomach
• Cardiac orifice
• Lesser curvature
• Greater curvature
• Pyloric orifice
• Duodenum: all
• root of the mesentery
• Liver: all borders
• kidney from back
• spleen
3. Transpyloric Plane
• Midway between jugular notch and
symphysis pubis
• Midway between xiphisternal joint
and the umbilicus
• Joining the tips of the both 9th costal
cartilages
• At the lower border of first lumbar
spine
4. Transpyloric Plane
Important Structures at the level of
transpyloric plane:
• Pyloric end of the stomach
• Fundus of gall bladder
• Origin of the superior mesenteric
artery
• hila of the both kidneys
• Lower end of the spinal cord
5. Stomach
Cardiac orifice:
• Point on the left seventh costal cartilage 2.5cm
from the median plane and draw 2 lines parallel
and 2cm apart going downward and towards the
left
Lesser curvature
• J shaped line extending from the right margin of
the cardiac orifice to the upper margin of the
pyloric orifice
Greater curvature:
• Point on left 5th intercostal space slightly below
and medial to left nipple
• A point at the junction of the tips of 9th and
10th costal cartilages
• Then a continuous curved line is drawn from
cardiac orifice to the pyloric orifice
• Pyloric orifice: a point on the transpyloric line
1.2 cm to the right of median plane. Then draw 2
short parallel lines from here going upwards and
to the right
6. Liver
Upper border:
• Point slightly below the right nipple
• A point at xiphisternal joint
• Point slightly below and to the left of left
nipple, join these three points by a
convexo-concavo-convex line
Lower border:
• Point 1cm below the right tenth costal
cartilage
• Point opposite to the tip of the 9th costal
cartilage
• Point on the midline of the transpyloric
plane
• Last point of upper border
8. Types of X-ray
• Plane
• Contrast
Types of view
• Anterior-Posterior
• Posterior-anterior
• Lateral
• Oblique
9. Reading X-ray (what points must be described)
• Plane or contrast
• Which region
• which side (if applicable)
• Which view
• Showing which structure (main structure in the middle must be
mentioned first
• Other structures that can be seen in the x-ray
10. Reading X-ray (etiquettes)
• Use proper English grammar since the medical study is in English
• Do not use fingers to point at the Xray
• Point to the structure correctly when you are describing or
mentioning it
• Identify the correct side of the Xray by reading the writings on the
film
• If "L" is written on the film, the Xray is of left side, if "R" is written the
Xray is of right side
11. Place X-ray of abdomen
• This is the plane Xray of abdomen,
Anterior-Posterior view showing
lumbar vertebrae, gaseous shadows in
the small and large
intestines, sacrum, both hip bones,
head and neck of the both femurs and
lower 3 ribs.
12. KUB Region
• This is the plane Xray of Kidney-
Ureter-bladder Region,
Anterior-Posterior view showing
lumbar vertebrae, gaseous
shadows in the small and large
intestines, sacrum, both hip
bones, head and neck of the
both femurs and lower 3 ribs.
13. Pelvis
• This is the plane Xray of the
pelvic region anterior-
posterior view showing the
bony pelvis including the
both hip bones and the
sacrum in the middle with
the hip joint and the upper
part of both femurs