Tactile Fremitus and Resonance To Percussion...?
1) Pleural Effusion
2) Atelectasis
3) Consolidation
4) Emphysema
Pls explain categorically..
Answer:
1. Decreased tactile fremitus (I think), dullness to percussion
2. Decreased fremitus, some dulling to percussion
3. Increased fremitus because the nouns waves travel better through solid areas, dullness to percussion
4. Decreased fremitus, hyperressonance due to nouns trapping
Vocal fremitus is pathologically increased over areas of consolidation and decreased or omitted over areas of pleural effusion or pneumothorax (collapsed lung).
Hemothorax produces dull resonance on percussion whereas tension pneumothorax produces hyper-resonance.