CHEST X-RAY, PA AND LATERAL VIEWS - 18

CHEST X-RAY, PA AND LATERAL VIEWS

INDICATION FOR STUDY:           Preoperative chest with a history of cough.

FINDINGS:               An examination of the chest shows chronic findings with some hyperlucency and with interstitial and parenchymal pulmonary scarring, but with no parenchymal pulmonary mass lesion suspected.

Heart is at the upper limits of normal for size or perhaps slightly exceeds the upper limits.  A treatment catheter can be seen entering from the left with its tip in the superior vena cava.

Hemidiaphragms appear normal with clear costophrenic angles.  A lateral chest radiograph shows a clear retrocardiac space and the posterior sulcus appears to be clear.

IMPRESSION:

1.                   Chronic pulmonary scarring as noted.

2.                   Treatment catheter seen entering from the left.

3.                   No active or acute cardiopulmonary process, but with chronic scarring.

4.                   Apparent pectus deformity of the chest.

Thank you for the referral.

XXXXXXXXXX, M.D.