[Thorax--an atlas of radiographic images of childhood lung diseases].

At the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute for Postgraduate Medical Training in the University Thomayer Hospital in Prague an extensive archive of rare X-ray findings from the field of child pneumology was assembled which is used for postgraduate medical training. To facilitate physical manipulation of the documents the X-ray pictures were transferred to a computer data base. For storage the Thorax programme was used which is distributed on CD-ROM. The authors discuss the use of this programme in practice. At present the data base comprises 529 digitalized X-ray pictures of 149 case-histories of pulmonary diseases of child patients.