purpose: to describe a patient with eyelid sarcoidosis. case report: a 54 year-old patient was referred for an eyelid mass from 6 months ago.excisional biopsy showed inflammatory granuloma with tuton gaint cells. chest radiograph demonstrated bilateral hilar adenopathy, increased absorption on gallium scan was noted and bronchoalveolar lavage confirmed a diagnosis of sarcoidosis. treatment with...

OBJECTIVES To describe the short-term outcomes in Aboriginal children admitted to hospital with radiological alveolar lobar changes; and determine whether predischarge chest radiography can predict respiratory morbidity found at follow-up. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS, SETTING: Prospective cohort study of Aboriginal children admitted to Alice Springs Hospital between October 2000 and April 2001 with al...

Manchanda S, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-219852 Description A 35-year-old asymptomatic man presented for chest radiograph evaluation as a part of pre-employment medical examination. The radiograph revealed a large, dense homogenous mass with sharply defined margins and a broad base towards the mediastinum overlying the right hilum. There was also evidence of linear calcificat...

Dear Sir, Giant pulmonary hydatid cyst is a rare clinical entity and can be a diagnostic challenge on chest radiograph. Here we are reporting a case of giant pulmonary hydatid cyst which mimicked as elevated diaphragm on chest radiograph. A 45-year-female patient presented to us with complaints of right-sided chest pain, dry cough, and low-grade fever since 2 months. On vitals examination her b...

A 32-year-old female presented to the emergency department after a motor vehicle collision with complaints of thoracic back pain. Further history was not obtainable owing to marked ethanol intoxication. Vital signs and physical examination were unremarkable except for a mild tachycardia, which resolved with intravenous fluids. A chest radiograph was obtained (Figure 1). Medical records’ review ...

A case of pulmonary Mycobacterium malmoense infection presenting as a pseudotumour of the lung in a severely immunosuppressed HIV infected patient is reported. (Thorax 1994;49: 179-180) Figure 1 Chest radiograph showing a confluent area of consolidation in the left upper zone. Department of Genitourinary Medicine K Yoganathan A L Pozniak Department of Thoracic Medicine M W Elliott J Moxham King...

A three-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) with a chief complaint of choking for 20 minutes after ingestion of an unknown clear liquid; this was followed by one episode of emesis. On arrival she had no respiratory distress, and her symptoms had resolved. Her physical exam and vital signs were unremarkable with a room air oxygen saturation of 99% and a respiratory rate of...

A case of primary pulmonary lymphoma presenting as a nodular lesion on the chest radiograph in a patient with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome is described.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of the chest radiograph in identifying patients with miliary tuberculosis. DESIGN Retrospective case-controlled review by three independent blinded chest radiologists. SETTING Provincial tuberculosis control center. PATIENTS Population-based sample, including all proved cases of miliary tuberculosis diagnosed in the Province of British Columbia, Cana...

Background and objectives: to study the diagnostic accuracy of Computed Tomography in evaluation of various etiologies of hemoptysis with normal chest radiographs. Methods: Two hundred patients with hemoptysis and normal chest radiograph were evaluated with computed tomography from the period of December 2008 to October 2009. The patients were categorized according to the primary etiology and s...