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Plain chest X-ray

Known as: thorax x-ray, chest X ray, Chest--Radiography 
An x-ray of the structures inside the chest. An x-ray is a type of high-energy radiation that can go through the body and onto film, making pictures… 
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Diagnostic radiologic examinationRadiographic imaging procedureRadiography, ThoracicRoentgen Rays

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Radiologic examination, chest; stereo, frontalViews:Finding:Point in time:Chest:Narrative:XR

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Review
2002
Review
2002
Relationship of Antihypertensive Treatment Regimens and Change in Blood Pressure to Risk for Heart Failure in Hypertensive Patients Randomly Assigned to Doxazosin or Chlorthalidone: Further Analyses…
Context Previously published results of this randomized, double-blind trial showed that hypertensive patients treated with… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Comparison of an amorphous silicon/cesium iodide flat-panel digital chest radiography system with screen/film and computed radiography systems--a contrast-detail phantom study.
Flat-panel (FP) based digital radiography systems have recently been introduced as a new and improved digital radiography… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Staging of metastatic melanoma by whole‐body positron emission tomography using 2‐fluorine‐18‐fluoro‐2‐deoxy‐D‐glucose
Summary Metastatic melanoma was staged in l5 patients using whole‐body positron emission tomography (PET) and the… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
Percutaneous closure of the small patent ductus arteriosus using occluding spring coils.
Review
1992
Review
1992
The Cushing Syndrome Induced by Bronchial Carcinoid Tumors
OBJECTIVES To define the clinical spectrum of bronchial carcinoid tumors in patients presenting with the Cushing syndrome, to… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Type A behavior, social support, and coronary risk: interaction and significance for mortality in cardiac patients.
&NA; The 10‐year prognostic significance of psychosocial as well as medical risk factors was examined in 150 middle‐aged Swedish… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
POSTNATAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV FROM MOTHER TO CHILD
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Five-year findings of the Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program. Prevention and reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy with antihypertensive drug therapy. Hypertension Detection and Follow…
The Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program followed 10,940 hypertensive adults for 5 years. Participants were monitored… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Exercise Capacity in Patients with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Normal or near-normal exercise capacity has been thought to reflect normal left ventricular function. Many compensatory… 
Highly Cited
1955
Highly Cited
1955
Chronic Heart Block in Dogs. A Method for Producing Experimental Heart Failure
A method is described for the production of chronic atrioventricular block in dogs, by incision of the region of the bundle of… 
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