CHEST X-RAY, PA AND LATERAL VIEWS - 8

CHEST X-RAY, PA AND LATERAL VIEWS

INDICATION FOR STUDY:         Dyspnea.

FINDINGS:               An examination of the chest was accomplished without benefit of any clinical history.  The right sixth rib would appear to be surgically absent, though I have no clinically history as to the patient’s previous surgery.  The patient has had a median sternotomy.

Chronic scarring is seen bilaterally with hyperlucency.  No definite active or acute pulmonary process is seen.

Heart size and contour is normal.

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

IMPRESSION:

1.                   Chronic pulmonary scarring.

2.                   Evidence of previous thoracotomy with apparent absence of the right sixth rib.

3.                   Previous median sternotomy.

Thank you for the referral.

XXXXXXXXX, M.D.

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