What does ground glass appearance on the chest x-ray indicate anybody?
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Ground glass opacities can indicate many things including infection, pulmonary edema, hemmorhage, many of the interstitial lung diseases, and alveolar proteinosis.
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Pretty much like a series of wiggly lines across the page.  Often described as the trails of a herd (or whatever the collective pronoun is) of drunken snails.\n\nTo the inexperienced eye it looks like nothing but to someone who knows how to look at the traces it can show a great deal of information about the subsurface.  The trick is to lie the trace on a table and look along it rather than at it.  All of a sudden the picture is resolved.
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is this regarding a chest x-ray? basilar markings on a chest x-ray is a term to describe how your lungs look. if there are increased basilar markings, there may be evidence of some fluid, infection, small areas of collapsed lung, or other things going on in the bottom of your lungs. if the basilar markings are normal, that means that the markings on your lungs are regular and appear normal. did that answer your question or were you talking about some different type of basilar markings?
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Sometimes, lumps in breasts can be innocent. Like a fatty deposit. Some woman naturally have lumpy breasts. If the x-rays came back ok , and your dr. is not concerned, i wouldn't worry about it. But you can always get a second opinion, to give you piece of mind.
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Gee, my sister has had it a couple times in her life, she currently has been off work since the week before Christmas. \n\nShe was on antibiotics, and was going weekly for chest xrays and pulmanery function testing.  She is still off work (until June), but has finally had clear results. \n\nI would say however, it depends on the lung damage.  Check with your doctor, each person may have different results. \n\nGood luck.
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You really ought to call your doctor on this one to get a chest exray to rule out things.  It could be anything from a simple virus to walking pneumonia to worse.  You could have something serious and not even know it.  Good luck
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I am an radiologic technologist and I have no idea what that means.  I am assuming you mean the x-ray report said, "Impression:  Coach on RX."  Update your question if that is not right.....
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If there's no immediate obvious explanation (like you just bumped it) - get a medical evaluation.  This could be an early sign of something serious.
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The second and third answers are closer to correct, but contact lenses, dust and granules will not show up on a CT scan.  Hypodense does mean it is whiter/brighter, but that would not be those things.  Some hypodense foreign objects could be small pieces of metal.  You would be amazed at how many people have these things near/in their eyes and are unaware.  This is the reason why we do screening orbital x-rays on welders, grinders, even jewelery makers, before they have a MRI and are exposed to a magnetic field.  Sometimes we find such objects before a MRI and the patient had no clue it was there.  Another foreign body of this type would be something like a BB pellet.  I am unsure how glass would look for certain, but I think it could appear this way.  I think you will find, after your neuro appointment, that this is merely an incidental finding, meaning it is something that is coincidental and not causing your symptoms.
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Lung infiltrates is a term that is used to describe the appearance of any abnormal substance that has accumulated in the lungs.  Lungs usually appear very dark on an xray because they contain mostly air which allows the xrays through very easily.  If the lungs start accumulating fluid or pus, for example, fewer of the xrays will make it through to the film and those areas appear whiter.  The white areas are called infiltrates.  Infiltrates can represent many things including pneumonia and other infections, tuberculosis, pulmonary edema, and hemorrhage, just to name a few.
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The area between the lungs. The organs in this area include the heart and its large veins and arteries, the trachea, the esophagus, the bronchi, and lymph nodes.\n\nPerforming a chest X-ray is the first step if a patient reports symptoms that may be suggestive of lung cancer. This may reveal an obvious mass, widening of the mediastinum (suggestive of spread to lymph nodes there). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer  \nStage III The cancer has spread to the lymph nodes in the mediastinum (middle area between the lungs that contains the heart, major blood vessels and other structures).  http://www.antigenics.com/diseases/lungcancer.html
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it can if u have copd (emphysema, chronic bronchitis), the docs will rule out tb if it looks suspisious... there are a lot of patients that go through that... cancer is also something that looks like tb.. infact any upper lobe change in ur x ray will have them yelling rule out tb
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IT MAY BE AN AMALGAM TATOO, SEE YOUR DENTIST TO  BE SURE.
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That could very well be the abnormality. Did you tell the doctor you had a fractured rib before? If you didn't, he might be seeing that and thinking it's a new onset sort of thing. You can usually tell what healed bone looks like on an x-ray, though. \nThe "abnormality" may be significant, or it may not be. Unfortunately, the only way to find out is to wait for the results.\nHope this helps!
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Yes, it could be scarring in your esophagas from reflux of acid. You need an upper GI xray.
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An immediate test is an ABG...arterial blood gas.  This is a test done on arterial blood, not venous blood.  It measures oxygenation of the blood and carbon dioxide levels. The degree of abnormality determines the degree of respiratory failure at any given time.  The PFT (pulmonary function test) mentioned above is also an important test to determine the ability level of the lungs to do their work.  Usually the PFT is used in known long term lung patients....asthma, copd etc to monitor the degree of pulmonary degeneration or the progression of lung disease.  The ABG is used on long termers OR on people who present themselves with an acute episode of a breathing problem.\n\nAlso, a chest xray is an important test.  The shape of the lungs in an xray can show COPD. An xray will also show, CHF (fluid) pneumonia etc. The xray of the lungs is usually the first test done....the ABG may be done sooner in an acute emergency situation.
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If it is of the appropriate diagnostic quality.\n\nThe job of the radiographer (radiologic technologist) is to use the minimum amount of radiation necessary to produce an image that provides enough information to confirm a diagnosis. How technically good it is in terms of density, contrast or sharpness, or how aesthetically pleasing it looks is secondary (although important).\n\nThere are a few other rather important technical issues - are the patient details shown and are they correct? Is an orientation marker shown and is it correct? Is the field delineated, thus indicating that the radiographer took particular care to minumise the irradiation of the patient, etc etc. The list goes on and on. \n\nUltimately it is good training, skills and professionalism coupled with experience that produces a good x-ray.