Screening by Chest Radiograph and Lung Cancer Mortality

Screening by chest radiograph and lung cancer mortality: the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) randomized trial.

CONTEXT The effect on mortality of screening for lung cancer with modern chest radiographs is unknown. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect on mortality of screening for lung cancer using radiographs in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Randomized controlled trial that involved 154,901 participants aged 55 through 74 yea...

Chest discomfort and abnormal chest radiograph.

Multiple nodular opacities on chest radiograph after lung transplantation.

(CHEST 1999; 115:272–274) A t the outpatient clinic, a 47-year-old woman was seen for routine follow-up after lung transplantation. The patient had received a right-sided lung transplant for primary pulmonary hypertension 2 years earlier. Her follow-up stated eight episodes of acute rejection, treated with high doses of corticosteroids. After the eighth episode, just over 6 months after transpl...

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...