A pulmonary contusion or lung contusion is a bruise in or on your lungs caused by blunt force to the chest. It is different than the tearing of lung tissue because a pulmonary contusion doesn’t ...

A chest X-ray does not directly show pulmonary embolism. However, it may help a doctor rule out health problems that cause similar symptoms, such as pneumonia and some heart conditions.

Chest CT scans are an accurate way of diagnosing pulmonary contusion. High resolution scans may be able to detect bruising immediately after the trauma and can help doctors identify people at ...

Small-airway obstruction, which cannot be seen with conventional X-rays, was observed in a virtual chest X-ray enhanced by phase-contrast imaging, according to study results published in ...

On the chest radiography level, researchers found a higher AU-ROC for the detection of any lung lesion with vs. without AI-assisted interpretation (0.84; 95% CI, 0.778-0.903 vs. 0.718; 95% CI, 0. ...