BACKGROUND Chest radiography is considered as the sole screening tool for chest pathologies as prerequisite for overseas employment during their medical examinations. The aim was to evaluate the role of CXR as a screening tool in the diagnosis of different lung pathologies in general and TB in particular. METHODS In this descriptive case series, reports of 63,648 Pakistani candidates, who too...

INTRODUCTION Echocardiography is the definitive diagnostic tool for left ventricular systolic dysfunction. But it's expensive and requires trained manpower and thus might not be available in the primary care set up. ECG and Chest X ray, the more basic investigations, may help diagnose LVSD or at least streamline those who absolutely require echocardiography in primary care setup. METHODS ECG,...

Even after vigorous attempts to identify the cause of it in almost 30% of the cases no definite etiology can be found. With underlying abnormality etiological analysis gets easier, but time and again, hemoptysis patients may have completely normal X ray chest. The common causes of hemoptysis in practice are Tuberculosis (endobronchial), CA lung, tracheitis, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, lung infa...

It is considered that annual chest x-ray (CXR) examination can be restricted to workers by age; however, adequate epidemiological evidence is needed regarding the difference in the effectiveness of CXR examination between younger and older age groups. This study attempted to estimate the prevalence of latent abnormalities (P) in the lung and the false negative rate (F) and false positive rate (...

An outline of the chest X-ray findings on pyrophyllitosis was described in terms of working environments and its length of term in the dust. It was clarified that in pyrophyllitosis granular shadows were distributed in the upper and middle lung :fields, which used to indicate an accretion trend at an early stage. A fast development of :fibrosis in the lung was also assumed, from which standpoin...

A patient presented with recent onset of increasing shortness of breath, weight loss and low-grade fever. His chest X-ray revealed bilateral miliary shadowing. He was investigated with CT-scanning of thorax. Later, a biopsy from supra-clavicular node and its immunocytochemistry studies confirmed metastasis from primary lung cancer. Primary lung cancer with miliary pulmonary metastases is a rare...

MrX,aman inhismid50swithahistoryofmild intermittent asthma and an increasingly painful umbilical hernia, presented to a general surgery clinic for a preoperative evaluation.Basic laboratorytest resultsandcardiopulmonary examination findings were normal, and a reducible hernia was noted. A chest radiograph (CXR) was obtainedfortheindicationofpreoperativeevaluationinapatient with asthma older tha...

conclusions in cases of pontaneous pneumothorax, chest x ray and computerised tomographic scan have limitations. ct scan in combination with video assisted thoracoscopic surgery improves diagnostic accuracy and facilitates appropriate management of non-resolving spontaneous pneumothorax. objectives a 15 year old boy presented to the referring hospital with a right sided spontaneous pneumothorax...

Dear Sir, As a consequence of the findings described in the paper by Bosse et al, we changed our departmental practice to avoid routine discharge X-rays without further clinical indication. We performed a follow-up audit that included again 100 consecutive children who underwent cardiac surgery between 2 December, 2009 and 10 May, 2010. Our review showed that discharge chest X-rays, defined as ...

Between November and April 2001 and 2005, 265 children with typical bronchiolitis were enrolled in a prospective cohort study. All patients were classified by Respiratory Disease Assessment Instrument (RDAI) clinical score, were treated with 2–3 consecutive nebulisations of 2.5 mg albuterol, and underwent chest radiography. Radiographs were interpreted by a radiologist as simple, complex or inc...