Fig. 1
From: Novel aspects in diagnostic approach to respiratory patients: is it the time for a new semiotics?
Seventy-five old man with persistent cough, shortness of breath of recent onset and ankle edema. a: Small transonic pleural effusion on the right side. b: Pneumogenic Interstitial Syndrome. The pleural line is irregular and the sub-pleural plane is white, without horizontal reverberations and mirror effect. c: Inferior cava vein is enlarged without inspiratory collapse. d: Sub-xiphoidal view of the heart showing enlarged right ventricle (arrow) with thickened wall. The left ventricle is normally kinetic