Sverdlovsk region Clinical Hosptital No. 1; Ministry of Health of Sverdlovsk region; Ural State Medical Academy, Ekaterinburg; Central City Hospital, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Russia
Chest X-ray is the most common and widely used diagnostic procedure. Chest X-ray is frequently performed not only due to lungs diseases but also in other organs’ diseases which indirectly affects lungs. At present computer tomography (CT) which has high resolution becomes to be more and more important. As in other diagnostic method, the main aim of CT is to confirm or reject the presence of disease. During outbreak of pneumonia in town Verkhnyaya Pyshma (Sverdlovsk region), all patients with suspected legionellosis underwent chest X-ray in front and lateral views. In several cases, computer tomography was performed.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2008, No. 2, P. 103—105