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

 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...

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Main Authors:	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan, Harun, Zulkifli, Osman, Iskandar Firzada, Mukhali, Hassan Basri
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System
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spelling	iium-666572018-10-17T01:23:37Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/ Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Harun, Zulkifli Osman, Iskandar Firzada Mukhali, Hassan Basri R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System  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 2018-10-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/1/MRS%20silhoutte%20sign%20after%20correction%204.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/16/66657_SILHOUETTE%20SIGN%20OF%20CHEST%20X%20RAY%20-%20tentative.pdf 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 (Unpublished)
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topic	R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System
spellingShingle	R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine RC270 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology-Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms-Therapeutics RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Harun, Zulkifli Osman, Iskandar Firzada Mukhali, Hassan Basri Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed
description	 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
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Harun, Zulkifli Osman, Iskandar Firzada Mukhali, Hassan Basri
author_facet	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Harun, Zulkifli Osman, Iskandar Firzada Mukhali, Hassan Basri
author_sort	Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan
title	Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed
title_short	Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed
title_full	Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed
title_fullStr	Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed
title_full_unstemmed	Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed
title_sort	silhouette sign of chest x-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/1/MRS%20silhoutte%20sign%20after%20correction%204.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/66657/16/66657_SILHOUETTE%20SIGN%20OF%20CHEST%20X%20RAY%20-%20tentative.pdf
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Silhouette sign of chest X-ray – a rescue sign of a lung carcinoma that almost missed

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