Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed

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 (Unpublished)

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Abstract

 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

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Additional Information:	6934/66657
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Silhouette sign, chest X-ray, lung carcinoma
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Medicine > Department of Family Medicine (Effective: 1st January 2011) Kulliyyah of Medicine
Depositing User:	Dr Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Shalihin
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2018 09:23
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2018 09:23
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/66657

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