Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed

 Lung carcinoma typically presents with haemoptysis and constitutional symptoms on a background history of chronic cigarette smoking.  A chest X-ray can pick up these lesions in view of its radio-opacity and nodular appearances that are manifested in more than 90% of cases.1  However it can...

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Main Authors:	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan, Harun, Zulkifli, Osman, Iskandar Firzada, Mukhali, Hassan Basri
Format:	Proceeding Paper
Language:	en en
Published:	2018
Subjects:	R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/1/MRS%20silhoutte%20sign%20after%20correction%204.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/16/66657_SILHOUETTE%20SIGN%20OF%20CHEST%20X%20RAY%20-%20tentative.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/
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