Abstract
CXR is a first-line diagnostic tool for many clinical scenarios, since it is available in every hospital unit and is cheap in terms of costs and patients dose. Furthermore, it represents a wide-ranging point of view for the thoracic surgeon, allowing either pre-interventional evaluation and post-surgical monitoring.
Principal indication of chest X-Ray in the field of thoracic surgery include:
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Pre-operative assessment, the utility of which has been validated only for patients that present new\unstable cardiopulmonary disease;
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Post-operative follow-up, in order to evaluate surgery complications such as persistent air leakage, pneumonia, parenchymal atelectasis, empyema;
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Monitoring medical devices (pleural, esophageal, tracheal etc.)
By knowing specific chest X-Ray semiology, the physician is able to interpret the images obtaining clinical information.
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Anzidei, M., Noce, V., Palla, C. (2018). Preoperative and Postoperative Chest X-Ray. In: Anzidei, M., Anile, M. (eds) Diagnostic Imaging for Thoracic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89893-3_1
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