Chest Radiograph
Evaluation of a chest radiograph reading and recording system for tuberculosis in a HIV positive cohort
... a chest radiograph (CXR) remains the primary diagnostic tool and provides an important contribution to the combined criteria for diagnosing TB in this patient group, and is therefore endorsed by the World ...
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Effective Crizotinib schedule for an elderly patient with ALK rearranged non small cell lung cancer: a case report
... dyspnea and exhibited arterial oxygen desaturation and hypoxemia (SpO2 89% in room air). Chest radiograph and CT scan revealed increase of right pleural effusions (Figure 2C and D). Serum B-type natriuretic ...
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Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis with coexistant aspergilloma: a case report
... In 1996, our patient presented with persistent cough, dyspnea and sweats. He had no fever. A general practi- tioner prescribed him a macrolide antibiotic, but there was no response to this treatment and our patient was ...
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A Robust Method for Tuberculosis Tracking and Sparse Classification of Features in Chest Radiograph Images
... Next step is the classification of chest X-rays to TB positive case as well as the negative ones. Here for classification a well-known classifier called sparse classifier is being used. The advantage of sparse ...
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'Target absent' decisions in cancer nodule detection are more efficient than 'target present' decisions!
... the chest radiograph by the experts, suggesting that once the FVF has adapted to the task as a result of training, it is applied consistently across the medical ...
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Clinical case review: A method to improve identification of true clinical and radiographic pneumonia in children meeting the World Health Organization definition for pneumonia
... lower chest wall indrawing (severe pneumo- nia); or (c) cyanosis and/or inability to feed or drink (very severe ...to chest radiograph which was interpreted by using a reading process developed by ...
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Yellow nail syndrome following multiple orthopedic surgeries: a case report
... Case presentation: A 78-year-old Asian woman presented to our outpatient department with chief complaints of cough, fever, and nausea. The patient was hospitalized for observation because of the presence of hypoxemia and ...
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Acute respiratory failure in kidney transplant recipients: a multicenter study
... In our study, only 37.5% of patients recovered their previous level of graft function, and 25.8% had to resume dialysis. In a single-center study, graft loss requiring resumption of renal replacement therapy was present ...
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Latent tuberculosis among pregnant mothers in a resource poor setting in Northern Tanzania: a cross sectional study
... Consenting pregnant women were first subjected to a TB symptom check-list (administered in Swahili by bi- lingual researchers) followed by a routine physical exam- ination. They were also subjected to the Mantoux test ...
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Original Article Summed score of initial chest radiograph and APACHE II preferably evaluates illness severity and accurately predicts ICU mortality in severe avian influenza H7N9
... Approvingly, a summed score of initial radio- graph and APACHE II met both expectations above. It reflected the frequency and distribu- tion of such radiographic characteristics as GGO and consolidation pathologically ...
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Inter rater agreement in the assessment of abnormal chest X ray findings for tuberculosis between two Asian countries
... Two coding systems were used to classify the CXR find- ings. The chest radiograph reading and recording system (CRRS) was developed in 2005 to detect TB and other forms of lung disease [5]. Profusion score ...
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa Community Acquired Pneumonia with Septicemia in a Previously Healthy Woman
... repeat chest CT scan on the 11th hospital day showed reduction of air space con- solidation, but anew cavity formation was observed (Figure ...Follow-up chest radiograph and CT scan on the 24th ...
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A Rare Cause of Chest Pain: Disseminated Elemental Mercury Microthromboembolism
... The radiograph from his most recent emergency department discharge (Figure 1 and Figure 2) showed no acute cardiopulmonary disease and a two-view chest radiograph was performed (Figure 3 and Figure ...
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Management for Pediatric Pleural Empyema in Resource Poor Country: Is Chest Tube Drainage with Antiseptic Lavage Irrigation Better than Tube Thoracostomy Alone?
... compared Chest tube drainage with antiseptic lavage-irrigation versus drainage by tube thoracostomy alone in management option for empyema thoracis in children and share our experience in re- source-poor country ...
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Comparative study between chest mobility exercises with incentive spirometry versus chest mobility exercises with stacked breathing on chest expansion in subjects with unilateral pleural effusion
... Materials used in the study were a couch, paper, pen, incentive spirometer, measuring tape and the measuring tool was Thoracic flow cytometry (with measuring tape in cms.) Subjects of both genders in the age group of ...
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Protocol for PIT: a phase III trial of prophylactic irradiation of tracts in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma following invasive chest wall intervention
... of chest wall metastasis in the control arms, question whether the three previous randomised controlled trials were adequately ...the chest wall scar employed by the previous negative studies may have been ...
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Epithelioid Angiosarcoma of Bone: A Neoplasm with Potential Pitfalls in Diagnosis
... (A) Radiograph of the shoulder showed a well- defined lesion with radiodense margins in the epiphysis of the humerous head, with slight extension into the metaphy- ...
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The prevalence and under diagnosis of vertebral fractures on chest radiograph
... quantitative morphometric assessment relies entirely upon placing six points in each vertebral body to calcu- late the anterior, middle, and posterior heights and their ratios. One area of concern with this approach is ...
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The clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of computed tomography screening for lung cancer : systematic reviews
... using chest X-ray to screen for lung cancer, have completed health- related quality of life questionnaires [Short term 12 (SF-12) plus cancer-specific distress questions] at baseline and during the first year of ...
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Chest burial: A middle anglo-saxon funerary rite from northern england
... skeletal asymmetry and habitual activity such as spondylolysis and os acromiale 2 amongst chest burials. Several cases from within the chest-burial population stand out. Skeleton 1045, an older male from ...
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