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A chest radiograph, chest X-ray (CXR), or chest film is a projection radiograph of the chest used to diagnose conditions affecting the chest, its contents, and nearby structures. Chest radiographs are the most common film taken in medicine.
File: Chest X-ray showing left pulmonary agenesis with mediastinal shift and right lung hyperinflation.png
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Causes of Kerley B lines include pulmonary edema, lymphangitis carcinomatosa and malignant lymphoma, viral and mycoplasmal pneumonia, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, pneumoconiosis, and sarcoidosis. They can be an evanescent sign on the chest x-ray of a patient in and out of heart failure.
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Chest X-ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis: Infection in both lungs is marked by white arrow-heads, and the formation of a cavity is marked by black arrows. 3. Nodule with poorly defined margins - Round density within the lung parenchyma, also called a tuberculoma.
File:Trachea (transparent).png (From Gray's Anatomy, Public Domain) File:Chest_Xray_PA_3-8-2010.png by Stillwaterising (Public Domain) Further outline of venous system:
Projectional radiography, also known as conventional radiography, [1] is a form of radiography and medical imaging that produces two-dimensional images by X-ray radiation. The image acquisition is generally performed by radiographers, and the images are often examined by radiologists. Both the procedure and any resultant images are often simply ...