Hampton hump

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An X-ray of a Hampton hump (above) with a severe pulmonary embolism. The changes can also be seen in the computed tomography (below), which also shows the thrombi in the pulmonary artery (blue arrow).

Hampton hump or Hampton's hump is the English-language name for a dome-shaped, pleural compression in the X-ray image , which is the expression of a peripheral pulmonary infarction as part of a pulmonary embolism . Other causes of a pulmonary infarction such as B. Aspergillosis are conceivable, but far less common.

A Hampton hump is therefore, in addition to the Westermark sign and the Fleischner sign, an X-ray sign for a pulmonary embolism. However, all of the characters mentioned are not necessarily present, on the contrary, they appear rarely.

The Hampton hump is named after Aubrey Otis Hampton , an American radiologist who published the first description in 1940.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hampton AO, Castleman B: Correlation of postmortem chest teleroentgenograms with autopsy findings . In: Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther . 34, 1940, pp. 305-326.

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