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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| Format: | Proceeding Paper |
| Language: | en en |
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2018
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| 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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| Summary: | 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 be mistakenly interpreted as normal if it is
obscured by heart shadow.
Nevertheless, loss of a specific contour can help
determine the presence position of a disease process.
This phenomenon is known as the silhouette sign |
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