Diagnosis of Pleural & Lung Diseases using Sonography

Abstract

Sonography has been proved to be valuable for the evaluation of a wide variety of chest diseases, particularly when the pleural cavity is involved. The advantages of Sonography are that it is a relatively inexpensive, widely available, mobile form of multi-planar imaging free from ionizing.The 30 patients who had visited the Out-Patient Department (OPD) and in-patient department (IPD) of a hospital in North India were considered in the study. All patients were undergone radiologically then as per the requirements the skiagram were taken.Various biochemical and histopathological tests were done wherever required. After this, the patients were examined by ultrasound and areas to be examined were selected on the basis of information available from skiagrams.The data from the Radiography and the sonography showed that the Radiological results are better than detected in the Sonography. Keywords: Pleural & Lung Diseases, Sonography, Radiograph etc.