A closer examination of the common chest X-ray could reveal osteoporosis in older patients not previously diagnosed with the brittle-bone disease, according to a study. Canadian researchers said ...

In spite of the fact that by x-ray examination of the lungs alone it is possible to identify only 75 to 80 per cent of the lesions, 1 x-ray examination of the chest has become mandatory for food ...

Having a chest X-ray can be a valuable tool for your doctor to help diagnose an illness. It can however be misleading if it is used alone rather than with other tools to make that diagnosis.

In children exposed to tuberculosis, chest radiography helped in detecting asymptomatic coprevalent TB and predicting incident TB after baseline, according to a study in American Journal of ...

X-ray examination of the chest revealed a mottled infiltration in the left-upper-lung field containing a central, oval-shaped area of homogeneous opacity.