Chest radiography

Abrons HL, Petersen MR, Sanderson WT, et al Chest radiography in Portland cement workers. J Occup Environ Med 39(11) 1047-1054, 1997... 

Chest radiography of 492 diatomaceous earth workers employed in a mine-processing facility in California revealed profusion abnormalities in 5% the prevalence of profusion abnormalities was significantly higher in workers with more than 12.5 years of employment. ... 

Julie Singer is a 55-year-old white woman who was admitted to the emergency department in acute distress. A previous physical examination showed hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2. The patient s present medications include enalapril 40 mg, nifedipine 60 mg, and 100 U insulin. A physical examination revealed prominent ankle edema, a palpable spleen, and hepatomegaly. Chest radiography revealed diffuse cardiac enlargement and left ventricular hypertrophy. Based upon the history and clinical hndings, what is your diagnosis and what treatment do you recommend ... 

No routine imaging studies are indieated 0 Chest radiography is indicated to deteet acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients with pulmonary symptoms... 

Chest radiography Tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, Wegener s granulomatosis... 

Dave SK, Ghodasara NB, Patel GC, et al. 1995. Correlation of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking with pulmonary function tests and chest radiography. Indian J Ind Med 41 106-115. 

Friedman AC, Fiel SB, Fisher MS, et al. 1988. Asbestos-related pleural disease and asbestosis A comparison of CT and chest radiography. Am J Roentgenol 150 269-275. 

Nakadate T. 1995. Decline in annual lung function in workers exposed to asbestos with and without preexisting fibrotic changes on chest radiography. Occup Bnviron Med 52 368-373. 

Clinical diagnostic methods for determining exposure and effects of asbestos include chest radiography, pulmonary function tests, and high resolution computerized tomography. Microscopic detection of asbestos bodies in autopsied or biopsied lung tissue can be used to confirm exposure when tissue is available. 

Fracture of a central venous catheter due to compression between the clavicle and the adjacent first rib has been reported (5). A pinched-off sign on X-ray indicates the need to remove the catheter, because of a significant risk of subsequent fracture, which has an incidence of 0.9%. Catheters lying anterior to the subclavian vein between the clavicle and the first rib are hable to be compressed and to fracture subsequently. This is a potentially life-threatening complication that can be averted by correct placing of the central venous catheter and by immediate chest radiography to search for evidence of catheter kinking or compression. 

Infnsion reactions with rituximab are generally well tolerated, as with most monoclonal antibodies. Most reactions are limited to the first infusion, including nansea, chills, and fever. They occur in over 90% of patients. More serious is the cytokine-release syndrome, which occnrs within 60-90 minutes and is characterized by fever, chills, rigors, bronchospasm, hypoxia, hypotension, nrticaria, and angioedema. Infusion must be discontinued, and the patient carefully monitored with chest radiography and fluid and electrolyte assessment and treated with oxygen and bronchodUators. 

A 76-year-old non-smoking woman with giant-cell arteritis who had a normal chest X-ray was taking prednisone 45 mg/day and ticlopidine 250 mg bd for persistence of cloudy vision. After 1 month of ticlopidine therapy, she developed increasing dyspnea and a pruritic rash. Chest radiography showed diffuse interstitial... 

Paganin, F., Trussard, V., Seneterre, E. a al. (1992). Chest radiography and high-resolution computed tomt raphy of the lungs in asthma. Am. Rev. Respir. Dis 146, 1084-1087. 

The ECG may show increased T-wave amplitude, shortening of the S-T segment, third-degree heart block, supraventricular or ventricular tachycardias, A-V block, ischemic myocardial changes (DeBush and Seidel, 1969 Lee-Jones et al., 1970 Ballantyne et al., 2006). Plain chest radiography may demonstrate pulmonary edema. 

Esophageal perforation can be diagnosed on frontal and lateral chest radiographs. Findings include pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax, hydro-pneumothorax, subcutaneous emphysema and pleural effusions (Fig. 2.30). Chest radiography is not useful... 

Vogt FM, Herborn CU, Hunold P, Lauenstein TC, Schroder T, Debatin JF, Barkhausen J (2004) HASTE MRI versus chest radiography in the detection of pulmonary nodules comparison with MDCT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 183 71-78... 

A suspected patient with tuberculosis is evaluated through different medical tests. The tests include checking the medical history, physical examination, test for tuberculosis, chest radiography, diagnostic microbiology, and drug resistance test. 

With chest radiography, chest abnormaUties can be observed (CDC, 2014). Abnormahties include lesions distributed in many locations in the lung. Lesions develop due to formation of grayish hard tubercles (CDC, 2014). Through radiography, the number, density, and distribution of tubercles in the lungs can be... 

Posterolateral and anterolateral chest radiography should be performed in order to examine heart, lungs, and lead features (Fig. 3.2). When the explanting lead is very old, thick calcifications can... 

CT offers the possibility to demonstrate both airway and vascular pathology (e.g. bronchiectasis, bronchogenic carcinoma, aneurysmal disease of the thoracic aorta), and has been reported to be the modality of first choice in patients with hemoptysis [18]. In patients who have a non-diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy, CT can provide a diagnosis in half of the cases, while in patients with non-conclusive chest radiography this rate varies from 39% to 88% [16, 17]. Localization of the bleeding site can be achieved in 63%-100% of all cases [7, 15]. Current multidetector CT scanners also allow visualization of bronchial and non-bronchial systemic artery anatomy, and may thus be of help for the interventionalist to plan the procedure [8,13,19, 20]. 

Brennan PC, Hourihan SP, The cost-effectiveness of carbon fibre cassettes in mobile chest radiography, European Radiology, 8(2), 301-305, 1998. 

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