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Hampton's hump

Aubrey Otis Hampton, US radiologist 1900-1955. A pulmonary soft tissue density seen adjacent to the pleura on chest X-ray. It is convex towards the hilum, generally at the costophrenic angle. Etiology: - pulmonary embolism - pulmonary infarction

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
  2. Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 14, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2006