Roentgenographic aspects of complete and incomplete pulmonary infarction.

With the advent of effective medical and surgical therapy for pulmonary and systemic thromboembolic disease, it has become essential for the radiologist to diagnose this disease in the lung as rapidly and accurately as possible. The appearance of pulmonary emboll and thrombi on the x-ray film is varied, and in this paper an attempt will be made to review the roentgenographlc appearance in 25 cases (see Table I) in which there were positive findings, and to correlate these with other cases reported in the. literature.