Abdus Salam, Ghulam Sabir Iqbal, Muhammad Usman Ahmed.
An analysis of one thousand chest radiographs at a secondary care center.
Rawal Med J Jan ;33(2):150-3.

Objective: To find the workload of radiology department consisting of chest x-ray, clinical notes writing trends, and, percentage of radiographs showing abnormalities, Material and Methods: One Thousand Chest X-Rays were studied at the department of radiology, CMH Murree from April 2002 to August 2002. Results: Chest x-ray made up 28% of the workload. Three major symptoms of patients were cough (7%), Fever (6%) and chest pain (5%). Only 9.2% films had significant findings. Pulmonary Tuberculosis (2.1%) cardiomegaly (2.1%) consolidation (1.4%) and pleural effusion (.8%) were the major radiological findings. Conclusion: X-ray chest constitutes the major bulk of radiographic workload at our institution and Tuberculosis was the commonest radiological finding. (Rawal Med J 2008;33:150-154).

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