A 69-year-old woman presented to an outside hospital with chest pressure radiating to the back and dyspnea. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest with pulmonary embolism protocol for elevated D-dimer was negative (Figure 1). She had mild Troponin elevation that resolved along with the symptoms, and the patient underwent a stress test to rule out acute coronary syndrome. She developed dys-pnea d...

BACKGROUND Activity based costing (ABC) is an approach to get insight of true costs and to solve accounting problems. It provides more accurate information on product cost than conventional accounting system. The purpose of this study was to identify detailed resource consumption for chest x-ray procedure. METHODS Human resource cost was calculated by multiplying the mean time spent by employ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Chest X-ray is recommended for routine use in patients with suspected pneumonia, but its use in emergency settings is limited. In this study, the diagnostic performance of a new method for quantitative analysis of lung ultrasonography was compared with bedside chest X-ray and visual lung ultrasonography for detection of community-acquired pneumonia, using thoracic compu...

Re: Audit of Shared Care between Hospital and General Practice in the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis SIR—I was interested to read the paper by Helliwell and O'Hara [1] on the audit of shared care between hospital and general practice in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using disease-modifying drugs. They point out that the audit for i.m. gold (sodium aurothiomalate) was disappoin...

conclusions based on the results of this study, although radiographic findings are not diagnostic in ptb, they are helpful if the assessment associates with the view of clinical manifestations and sputum smears. patients and methods in this retrospective descriptive-analytical study, 376 patients who had been confirmed with ptb were referred to birjand health care center from 2001 to 2006. out ...

conclusions in cases of pontaneous pneumothorax, chest x ray and computerised tomographic scan have limitations. ct scan in combination with video assisted thoracoscopic surgery improves diagnostic accuracy and facilitates appropriate management of non-resolving spontaneous pneumothorax. objectives a 15 year old boy presented to the referring hospital with a right sided spontaneous pneumothorax...

Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung is extremely rare.  Herein, a case of sclerosing hemangioma of the lung in a 44-year-old woman is reported.  On admission, the patient complained of pain in the left lower neck and upper chest.  Chest x-ray revealed a mass in lingular lobe of the left lung.  The patient underwent surgery and a mass was removed through left posterolateral thoracotomy.  Pathologi...

T HE first paper in this series' presented the results of heart disease case finding in the Boston Chest X-Ray Survey for tuberculosis, utilizing 70 mm. photofluorographic films which were read by the survey team for all abnormalities and then reread by a special group of radiologists, working in pairs, solely for abnormalities of the size and shape of the cardiac silhouette. This is a report o...