Student Nurse looking for info

Specialties Radiology

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Specializes in NICU- now learning OR!.

I am an ADN student in my first semester of classes. (fundamentals, theory, currently clinical is at a local nursing home)

My question is about a chest xray...

a result from a Radiologist was a "prominence" showing up that is "possibly vascular in nature". With a recommendation of another chest x ray in 3 months.

I can find no information on a "vascular prominence" in any of my text regarding this. I assume the radiologist was referring to the pulmonary arteries.....??

Can anyone clarify/explain this, or give me a source to even begin researching?

Thanks!

Jenny

ADN Grad Dec. 2005

Specializes in medical/telemetry/IR.

I think what the radiologiest means is this-They see something funny on xray, but it doesn't look like a tumor. It looks vascular-meaning it looks like it could be a arterial or venous. they want to see the xray in 3 months to see if it has changed. ie if its gotten bigger.

If I remember, I'll try to ask our radiologist next time I'm at work.

or you could go to

http://www.sirweb.org

good luck

Specializes in NICU- now learning OR!.
I think what the radiologiest means is this-They see something funny on xray, but it doesn't look like a tumor. It looks vascular-meaning it looks like it could be a arterial or venous. they want to see the xray in 3 months to see if it has changed. ie if its gotten bigger.

If I remember, I'll try to ask our radiologist next time I'm at work.

or you could go to

http://www.sirweb.org

good luck

Thanks for your reply!

I will check out the link (it's now bookmarked, too!)

Let me know what you may find out!

Thanks again!

Jenny

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