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chest film Chest X-ray Imaging A plain AP radiograph of the chest, the most commonly ordered X-ray, to evaluate lungs, heart, aorta, thoracic bones How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Case 2: Figure 1 B is a portable chest film on post-operative day 2 of the 53 year-old female who underwent a medial sternotomy for repair of an A-V fistula graft. A complicated failure-to-diagnose lung cancer case in the Superior Court, Santa Cruz County, California hinged, in part, on a nurse negligently sending the patient's physician the chest film from a year earlier, not the most current one. Overall heart size can be evaluated from chest films in a variety of ways; two of the most popular ways are calculation of the cardiothoracic ratio from posteroanterior (PA) films alone, and determination of the total cardiac silhouette volume utilizing both PA and lateral projections (2). |
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