CT of the Chest for Chest Pain
CT is often done to diagnose the cause of chest pain. CT is good at diagnosing some of the benign and life threatening conditions that can cause chest pain. Chest…
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Chest X-ray For Chest Pain
Chest X-ray is a common test ordered to evaluate chest pain. Chest pain can be caused by many benign and life threatening conditions. Chest pain can be caused by…
Chest X-ray For Cough
Chest X-rays are often done for respiratory symptoms like cough. Chest X-rays done for cough do not always show abnormalities to explain the cough. This is because many causes of…
Can A Chest X-ray Tell Us If There Is Fluid In The Lungs?
Yes, it can, but not all the time. When we say fluid in the lungs, we may mean that we have pulmonary edema. Fluid can also be found around the…
Can a Chest X-ray Spot Cancer?
In some cases, a chest X-ray can spot cancer. The bigger the tumor the better the odds it is seen on X-ray. Unfortunately, X-ray will not identify all lung tumors…
Lateral View Chest X-ray
Lateral view chest X-ray is an X-ray done from the side of the chest. This is usually done together with a view from the front of the chest, also called…
Does Pneumonia Always Show on Chest X-rays?
Pneumonia does not always show up on X-rays. A classic pneumonia will look like a white area in the normal black lung. Pneumonia can be in one spot or…
No infiltrates Seen on Chest X-ray
No infiltrates seen on chest X-ray is sometimes used by radiologists in radiology reports. This means that the radiologist does not see a white area in the lung that is…
Tuberculosis In The Lungs On X-Ray
Tuberculosis is an infection caused by the organism mycobacterium tuberculosis. The infection can spread throughout the body but is more common in the lungs. Tuberculosis is uncommon in western…
Follow up Chest X-ray
Follow up chest X-ray is sometimes recommended by radiologists for an abnormality that can better be determined when we see how it behaves over time. A chest X-ray abnormality such…
Plate Like Atelectasis on Chest X-ray
Plate like atelectasis means that a small part of the lung has collapsed. There are other terms that radiologists use to describe this finding like discoid atelectasis, band like atelectasis…
Ground Glass Nodule on CT
Ground glass nodule on CT means that there is an abnormal spot in the lung that looks hazy amidst the dark background of the lungs. We can see the underlying…