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Mass on chest X-ray.
Accepted 30 October 1996 A 22-year-old man was admitted to hospital with a 14-kg weight-loss over the last 14 months, and an abnormal chest X-ray. Physical examination revealed signs of consolidation over the left hemithorax, fever, tachypnoea and tachycardia. Computed tomography (CT) was performed (figure 1) and one liter of bloody fluid was drained by thoracentesis. Abdominal CT scan was normal.
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Of the various types of suspected chest pathology found in 70 mm. x-ray films taken during mass surveys cardiac enlargement is quite common. In order to determine if possible the significance and value of such findings a follow-up study was made of cases of cardiac enlargement detected as a result of chest x-ray surveys conducted by our Bureau of Tuberculosis Control from March 1950 to March 19...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.73.860.339