Some symptoms of tension pneumothorax include shortness of breath, sharp chest pain, and blue or discolored skin, lips, or nails. Tension pneumothorax is a medical emergency. Tension pneumothorax ...

Sudden lung collapse, known as spontaneous pneumothorax, can strike unexpectedly, leaving individuals gasping for relief.

When considering the positioning of a patient suspected of pneumothorax for a chest radiograph, PA is the best. The pneumothorax will appear more radiolucent (black) on the chest radiograph and the ...

Dr. Zucker: Repeat chest radiography showed resolution of the right pneumothorax and development of a large left pneumothorax with extensive collapse of the left lung.

If your doctor suspects you have COPD, you’ll likely undergo a few different tests, including a chest X-ray. Learn how to prepare for an X-ray and what the results could mean. Plus, see pictures ...

Fatty liver disease, caused by the accumulation of fat in the liver, is estimated to affect one in four people worldwide. If ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a medical robotic system to relieve a life-threatening ...

The chest X-rays were assessed for three common findings: airspace disease (a chest X-ray pattern, for example, caused by pneumonia or lung edema), pneumothorax (collapsed lung) and pleural ...

Of the 500 chest radiographs, 434 were portable anterior-posterior acquisitions, while one was upright posterior-anterior, and 65 were lateral posterior-anterior films.

Radiologists had a lower rate of false positives when detecting airspace disease, pneumothorax and pleural effusion on chest X-rays compared with artificial intelligence tools, according to ...

Clinical Snapshot Osteocartilaginous Exostosis—a Cause of Spontaneous Pneumothorax. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2024; 121: 504.DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0055 ...

Abstract. The chest radiograph (commonly referred to as chest X-ray) remains widely used, despite newer and more advanced imaging techniques such as computerised tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance ...