. Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy . PLATE XXXVIII.—C;hest showing Chronic with Bi-lateral Effusion.(From tlie same patient at several months interval.) a, Tliorax taken with plate on anterior , Plate ou jjosterior aspect. Shading at bases indicates involvement of pleura by carcinoma, c, Double pleural patient had been operated upon for carcinoma of the breast, and died with signs of secondary deposits in the lungs and pleura. INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA 203 accompanied by a pleural eSusion. The clinical history and the feverishstate of the patient
. Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy . PLATE XXXVIII.—C;hest showing Chronic with Bi-lateral Effusion.(From tlie same patient at several months interval.) a, Tliorax taken with plate on anterior , Plate ou jjosterior aspect. Shading at bases indicates involvement of pleura by carcinoma, c, Double pleural patient had been operated upon for carcinoma of the breast, and died with signs of secondary deposits in the lungs and pleura. INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA 203 accompanied by a pleural eSusion. The clinical history and the feverishstate of the patient should give a clue to the nature of the disease, and thesubsequent resolution of the inflammatory process, -with the slow subsidenceof the shadow seen on radiographic examination, will help to clear up thediagnosis. An acute pneumonia may, however, not resolve quickly, anda shadow in the substance of the lung mav be visible for several weeks afterthe inflammatory symptoms have subsided. Later on the affected portionof lung may become fibrosed. It i
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