Chest radiography; Serial chest x-ray; X-ray - chest

There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored and regulated to provide the minimum amount of radiation exposure needed to produce the image. Most experts feel that the risk is very low compared with the benefits. Pregnant women and children are more sensitive to the risks of x-rays.

Images

Coccidioidomycosis - chest x-ray

Pulmonary nodule - front view chest X-ray

Lung mass, right upper lung - chest X-ray

Sarcoid, stage IV - chest X-ray

Pulmonary mass - side view chest X-ray

Coal workers pneumoconiosis, complicated #2

Lung nodule - front view chest X-ray

Coal workers pneumoconiosis - stage II

Bronchial cancer - chest X-ray

Aortic rupture, chest X-ray

Adenocarcinoma - chest X-ray

Lung nodule, right middle lobe - chest X-ray

Sarcoid, stage II - chest X-ray

Tuberculosis, advanced - chest X-rays

Lung cancer, frontal chest X-ray

Coal worker's lungs - chest X-ray

Coal workers pneumoconiosis, complicated

Coal workers pneumoconiosis - stage II #2

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Review Date: 08/13/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)