title: [Diagnostic pitfalls, artefacts and difficulties of thoracic radiography].
abstract: The antero-posterior X-ray film of the chest is still a basic examination in everyday clinical practice. It supplies multiple data but reading of the image is difficult and requires much accuracy and method. In this review paper we examine all the artefacts, pitfalls and diagnostic problems we have encountered in many years of experience, irrespective of their cause (technical, iatrogenic) or origin (parietal, intrathoracic, pleural, vascular, gastrointestinal, mediastinal, pulmonary). We consider that all pneumologists should have in mind these problems when faced with doubtful or abnormal radiographs of the chest.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie A, Hôpital Villemin, CHRU de Nancy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Anthoine
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vaillant
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Martinet
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fade-Schneller
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Menard
mesh_terms: D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic
vernacular_title: Les pièges, artefacts et difficultés diagnostiques de la radiographie thoracique.