I. Clinical Problems of Diffuse Pulmonary Fibrosis
| Autor: | Scadding Jg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1956 |
| Předmět: |
Lung Diseases
medicine.medical_specialty Reasonable doubt Tuberculosis medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Pulmonary Fibrosis Collagen Diseases General Medicine Diffuse Pulmonary Fibrosis medicine.disease Surgery medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging In patient Intensive care medicine business Chest radiograph |
| Zdroj: | The British Journal of Radiology. 29:633-641 |
| ISSN: | 1748-880X 0007-1285 |
| DOI: | 10.1259/0007-1285-29-348-633 |
| Popis: | The problem about which I propose to speak is that which confronts the physician faced with a patient in whom diffuse reticular or nodular opacities have been found in the chest radiograph. I discussed this problem in 1952 at a meeting of the British Tuberculosis Association, and then listed 76 possible causes of such shadows (Scadding, 1952). My colleague Dr. Blair has added two more to the list since then (Blair, 1954). I propose to omit from my discussion today those conditions which present only with acute symptoms. This eliminates some, and leaves 48 possible causes of such shadows in patients who present with chronic symptoms or without symptoms. The clinician's first problem in such cases is that of diagnosis; and indeed in many cases it is his only problem. In many instances the diagnostic problem may be solved for all practical purposes by very simple means. The occupational history may be sufficient to provide a diagnosis beyond reasonable doubt. It is important in taking the history that all oc... |
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