The person in this examination taken from an X-ray museum suffered a condition in which masses of inflammatory blood-vessels, known as a granuloma, form in the lungs. It is fortunately rare. These lumps of granulomatous tissue often outgrow their blood supply and form large lung cavities. The...
The chest X-ray was reduced to its minimal parts, it was from a lady with tubercular infection of the lungs and complications – fibrosis, and a pneumothorax. What is left on the picture just retains the diagnostic elements albeit minimalized – another variation from my usual style which is...
An X-ray Study of the Lungs of Workmen in the Asbestos Industry, Covering a Period of ten Years12DUST inhalation is a subject in which we have been particularly interested for the past ten years. Our approach to this problem has been through the medium of the x-ray. During the past ...
Alexander Dumas Fils (1852) wrote; ”It was the fashion to suffer from the lungs…. It was good form to spit blood after any emotion that was at all sensational, and to die before the age of thirty”. My memory is of a young woman wracked with TB acquired during treatment for an ...
developed many complications arising from his prematurity including a pneumothorax (air in the chest spaces compressing the lungs). The infant is being ventilated and kept alive through the skill of the neonatologists. His hold on life is indeed tenuous, as is the hold we have upon the land ...
Chest 118; Asbestosis 20 Mar Chest 118; Asbestosis The original chest X-ray comes from a man with calcification of his pleura (the membrane that lines the inside of the chest and surrounds the lungs) due to long term exposure to asbestos dust in the mines of Western Australia. All ...
Chest 118; Asbestosis 20Mar Chest 118; Asbestosis The original chest X-ray comes from a man with calcification of his pleura (the membrane that lines the inside of the chest and surrounds the lungs) due to long term exposure to asbestos dust in the mines of Western Australia. ...
of stress such as drought. This provides the link to the included chest X-ray which was taken from an 18 month old child with bronchiolitis due to RSV. It causes inflammation of the smallest air passages of the lungs known as bronchioles and occurs in children less than two years of age...
Chest 66; Shower of roses 17 May Chest 66; Shower of Roses The index X-ray is from lady with breast cancer and metastatic deposits in the lungs, she suffered from a psychiatric complication of the cancer and steroid treatment. As a junior doctor I was once abused for referring a patien...