OBJECTIVE In women undergoing major gynecologic surgery, we wish to determine the frequency and yield of blood culture, urine culture, and chest X-ray evaluation of postoperative fever. METHODS A retrospective review of 537 consecutive patients undergoing major gynecologic surgery was performed. In patients who developed postoperative fever, it was determined whether blood culture, urine cult...

A 71-year-old male with a history of coronary artery bypass surgery 7 years ago underwent a transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy of a pulmonary nodule in the right lung. Three hours later, the patient complained of dyspnea and left sided thoracic pain. The chest x-ray showed bilateral apical pneumothoraces. A second chest x-ray two hours later showed an increase in pneumothorax size on the le...

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to build homogeneous equivalent phantom chest in order to provide the necessary ability for checking the image quality in radiographic tests in four age groups of children in terms of the most recent age group categorization ICRP103. This phantom provides the features of weakness and discrepancies similar to body and can be consi...

Background:The most efficient application of ionizing radiation is serving medical purposes and using this radiation has caused people to learn that artificial sources of radiation exposure among these resources can be of highest exposure rate.  Objective: The present study is aimed at initially establishing a baseline for local-reference dose level in Mazandaran, Iran in 12 projections of the...

  Solitary Fibrous Tumors (SFTs) are rare primary pleural neoplasms which have recently been reported in extra-thoracic sites. In this report, solitary fibrous tumor arising in an intra-thoracic goiter with no evidence of cervical mass in a 74-year-old obese man who was found to have a large superior mediastinal mass with tracheal deviation on Chest X-Ray is presented.

abstract bronchoalveolar carcinoma presenting as non-resolving consolidation is an uncommon presentation. the typical presentation of bronchoalveolar carcinoma is asymptomatic (solitary nodule) and remains without symptoms even as disease disseminates. we report a case of bronchoalveolar carcinoma presenting as non-resolving consolidation in a young male with productive cough, exertional breath...

A 25-year-old female presented with sudden-onset dyspnoea. A chest X-ray showed total atelectasis on the left haemithorax (Fig. 1). A chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a cystic mass in the posterior mediastinum that compressed the left main bronchus (Fig. 2). Pathological examination confirmed a broncho-genic cyst in the posterior mediastinum. Figure 1: Chest X-ray showing total atelectas...

this study was a part of national project to establish and optimize local and national diagnostic guidance levels. this work intends to evaluate image quality and entrance surface air kerma (esak) for patients' radiographic examinations in two north western provinces of country. two hospitals got involved in the present study. the rate of the rejected images and image quality grades were determ...

Background. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most prevalent diseases and a significant determinant of morbidity and death global. This study intended to compare and evaluate the benefits and importance of chest X-ray and chest ultrasound in the investigation of CAP in children. Methods. Study Population. One hundred children of one-month to five-years of age who suggested to the Childr...