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 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. ...
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 ...
asbestosis disease - honeycomb sized cavities end stage pulmonary fibrosis disease - large air bronchograms with thick walls bronchiectasis Disease - redistribution of pulmonary vasculature and engorgement. Fluid collection in dependent regions. Increased C/T ratio >0.5 size of heart congestive heart fail...
‘Bronchi’– the tubes that carry air from the nose and larynx to the alveoli of the lungs. ‘Ectasis’– a condition of abnormal dilatation. Bronchiectasis is a condition that is seen following frequent recurrent infections of the bronchi, usually bronchitis, though it is also seen in people...
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...
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...