Establishing the Cardiothoracic Ratio Using Chest Radiographs in an Indigenous Ghanaian Population: A Simple Tool for Cardiomegaly Screening

BACKGROUND: Cardiothoracic ratio is a simple and cheap tool in the estimation of heart size. It is a useful index of cardiac size evaluation, and a value of 50% is generally considered to indicate the upper limit of normal. STUDY OBJECTIVE: This study is to ascertain the normal mean value in cardiot...

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Udgivet i:Ghana Med J
Main Authors: Mensah, Y B, Mensah, K, Asiamah, S, Gbadamosi, H, Idun, E A, Brakohiapa, W, Oddoye, A
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Ghana Medical Association 2015
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676601/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26693191
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