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(Chest. 1964;46:219-222.)
© 1964 American College of Chest Physicians

Roentgenographic Appearances in Hepatopulmonary Amebiasis

N. K. Menon M.B., F.C.C.P.1

1 Professor of Tuberculosis, Osmania University

1. A review of the roentgenographic appearances of 12 cases of hepatopulmonary amebiasis treated in the Hospital for Diseases of Chest and Tuberculosis, Hyderabad, during the last three years has been presented.

2. The appearance of one or the other of the following three types of shadows in the postero-anterior chest films is helpful

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in the early diagnosis of hepato-pulmonary amebiasis:

Type I: A homogeneous, soft, domeshaped opacity with its base superimposed on and covering a variable extent of the right dome of the diaphragm and demarcated from it by the denser hepatic shadow below.

Type II: A fluffy, irregular, opacity overlying the right dome of the diaphragm, indistinguishably merging with the hepatic shadow below.

Type III: A small, dense, triangular shadow in the right costophrenic and/or cardiophrenic angle.






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