BACKGROUND In patients with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), changes on chest radiography are rare but poorly characterised, especially in general practice. AIM To describe the range of findings on chest radiographs and the associations between these findings and the aetiology of LRTI. DESIGN OF STUDY A prospective observational study. SETTING General practices in the Leiden regi...

BACKGROUND Lung ultrasound is an effective tool for diagnosing pneumonia in developed countries. Diagnostic accuracy in resource-limited countries where pneumonia is the leading cause of death is unknown. The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of bedside lung ultrasound compared to chest X-ray for pneumonia in adults presenting for emergency care in a low-income country. ...

A 60-year-old male presented with dyspnea and chest pain. He was referred with massive bulky mass. A mass in the left lung was observed using chest X-ray (Figures 1).  A computed tomography scan of the chest showed a mass on the left lung with complete lung collapse Figures 2 (A, B). The needle biopsy was performed and the case was diagnosed with solitary fibro...

CHEST, 68: 3, SEPTEMBER, 1975 SUPPLEMENT ing this infection and to seek medical care whenever he has a cough that hangs on more than two to three weeks after a cold, fatigue, loss of weight, or fever of unknown origin. At the urging of the Public Health Service three years ago, a program was undertaken in a rural Arkansas county to identify all persons at risk of developing tuberculosis by inst...

Ra-id Abdulla (ed.), Heart Diseases in Children: A Pediatrician’s Guide, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7994-0_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Ra-id Abdulla (*) Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Room 763 Jones, Chicago, IL 60612, USA e-mail: [email protected] Chapter 2 Cardiac Interpretation of Pediatric Chest...

BACKGROUND Chest radiography is considered as the sole screening tool for chest pathologies as prerequisite for overseas employment during their medical examinations. The aim was to evaluate the role of CXR as a screening tool in the diagnosis of different lung pathologies in general and TB in particular. METHODS In this descriptive case series, reports of 63,648 Pakistani candidates, who too...

An outline of the chest X-ray findings on pyrophyllitosis was described in terms of working environments and its length of term in the dust. It was clarified that in pyrophyllitosis granular shadows were distributed in the upper and middle lung :fields, which used to indicate an accretion trend at an early stage. A fast development of :fibrosis in the lung was also assumed, from which standpoin...

A patient presented with recent onset of increasing shortness of breath, weight loss and low-grade fever. His chest X-ray revealed bilateral miliary shadowing. He was investigated with CT-scanning of thorax. Later, a biopsy from supra-clavicular node and its immunocytochemistry studies confirmed metastasis from primary lung cancer. Primary lung cancer with miliary pulmonary metastases is a rare...

Background: Neonatal pneumopericardium (PPC) is a rare clinical condition usually associated with other air leak syndromes. It increases morbidity and mortality due to cardiac tamponade. Case report: A preterm male neonate weighing 1260 g was born with the gestational age of 28 weeks. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was routinely performed without any medical therapy. The newborn was transferred ...

Abstracts: Dural ectasia is circumferential expansion or dilatation of the dural sac, and has been frequently reported in association with type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1). It should be differentiated from posterior mediastinal tumors such as neurofibroma, neuroblastoma, and ganglioneuroma because NF-1 has a high risk of tumor formation. In the spinal deformities of NF-1 patients, despite the sco...