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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| author | Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Harun, Zulkifli Osman, Iskandar Firzada Mukhali, Hassan Basri |
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| description | 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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| spelling | iium-666572018-10-17T01:23:37Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/ Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Harun, Zulkifli Osman, Iskandar Firzada Mukhali, Hassan Basri R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System 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 2018-10-05 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/1/MRS%20silhoutte%20sign%20after%20correction%204.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/16/66657_SILHOUETTE%20SIGN%20OF%20CHEST%20X%20RAY%20-%20tentative.pdf Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan and Harun, Zulkifli and Osman, Iskandar Firzada and Mukhali, Hassan Basri (2018) Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed. In: Selangor Research Week 2018, 1st-5th Oct. 2018, Hospital Shah Alam, Selangor. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Harun, Zulkifli Osman, Iskandar Firzada Mukhali, Hassan Basri Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed |
| title | Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed |
| title_full | Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed |
| title_fullStr | Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed |
| title_full_unstemmed | Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed |
| title_short | Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed |
| title_sort | silhouette sign of chest x-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed |
| topic | R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System |
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