Diego Diaz told Newsweek he was genuinely shocked by what he saw on the X-ray, as the condition affects 1 in every 12,000 ...

With that in mind, Medscape Medical News asked leading primary care physicians for their advice and insight on navigating the ...

A chest X-ray typically won't show if a person has asthma ... Asthma is often diagnosed based on a person's history and physical exam. Commonly, there is coughing and wheezing that may be brought ...

Adverse effects from radiation dose absorbed in diagnostic practice are rare. For example, the radiation dose absorbed from a simple X ray examination such as a chest X ray (radiograph) or an X ray of ...

In a conventional X ray examination, the beam enters the body from one plane ... In many examinations such as CT of the head (including dental CT scans), chest and limbs, the pelvic region is not in ...

He subsequently became an employee of the Municipal Sanatorium, where a chest x-ray examination in June, 1946, showed a healed primary complex, with calcifications at both hilar areas. In July ...