Discordance Between Pleural Elastance and Postthoracentesis 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...

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...

Is pleural ultrasonography better than chest radiograph for follow-up resolution of pneumothorax?

www.chestpubs.org 5 . Jones AE , Shapiro NI , Trzeciak S , Arnold RC , Claremont HA , Kline JA ; Emergency Medicine Shock Research Network (EMShockNet) Investigators . Lactate clearance vs central venous oxygen saturation as goals of early sepsis therapy: a randomized clinical trial . JAMA . 2010 ; 303 ( 8 ): 739 746 . 6 . Rivers EP . Point: adherence to early goal-directed therapy: does it rea...

Chest radiograph of an asymptomatic man

Case report: An asymptomatic man undergoes a chest radiograph http://ow.ly/4nmyfG.