Humerus - Special Views - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the trans thoracic lateral humor. The trans thoracic lateral humerus should be performed with the patient standing at the upright buccy or lying supine on the radiographic table with a forty inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. This view is a trans thoracic lateral. It's also a trauma view done for possible fractures of the proximal humerus. We're gonna have the patient stand at the upright buggy. I've got forty inches SID. Because my patient is symmetrical, I'm going to use the uninjured arm and use the surgical neck as the central ray and the coronal plane. So the left arm is injured. I have a left marker on the board. I'm going to take the patient's uninjured arm and raise it up over his head. And we're going