X-rays - sm

Posted By: oldradmt on 2006-01-17
In Reply to: Very basic question about x-rays - newbie

AP is one film, lateral is a separate second film for a chest x-ray. Sometimes the techs can do both AP and lateral of a hand, finger, etc, on ONE film, side-by-side, which could explain the show/shows verbage. Depends on the exam, but if a chest, always done on two films.

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  - not necessarily two films. they can do just PA or SM - anon
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Very basic question about x-rays

Can someone clarify this for me.

When the doc states, "X-ray, AP and lateral" - Does it mean that the x-ray was taken front to back (AP) and in the lateral plane?

For a while I was thinking that AP was one film and lateral was another, but I wonder, because the docs keep saying "shows" (indicating by their grammar that it is one film) instead of "show". I feel kind of dumb not knowing this. I looked in my reference that describes all of the different ways to take an x-ray but still can't clarify it.

Thanks