Chest Discomfort and Abnormal Chest Radiograph

Chest discomfort and abnormal chest radiograph.

An abnormal chest radiograph.

Volume 90, Number 1 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 47 A 24-year-old asymptomatic man requested a chest radiograph for routine tuberculosis screening. He did not have difficulty breathing, palpitations, chest pain, or edema. His medical history was significant for scoliosis and Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, a rare genetic condition that causes short stature, broad thumbs and toes, hirsu...

Tuberculin conversion and abnormal chest radiograph in an infant.

A 15 month old girl, who had not received bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, and who had no known exposure to tuberculosis, was hospitalized because of Salmonella enteritis. The child also suffered from persistent coughing. The primary routine Mantoux skin test with 100 tuberculin units (TU) was remarkably positive (20 mm induration) for the first time, so that tuberculin conversion was def...

The Chest Radiograph

The chest radiograph accounts for a very significant proportion of imaging throughout the world. It often represents the first imaging step, not only in diseases that focus on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, but in systemic illness. For this reason, its ubiquity can be beguiling. There is an inclination to feel that because one grows up with the chest radiograph, there must be an in...

Abnormal pulmonary density discovered on routine chest radiograph.

Figure 4. Enhanced CT image of the liver shows enlargement of the hepatic artery (arrows). Innumerable small, irregular vascular liver lesions are again seen (arrowheads). Figure 1. Posteroanterior radiograph of the chest demonstrates an abnormal density (arrows) in the inferior portion of the left lung. Figure 2. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest (lung window) shows a lobulated mass (arrow...