[New diagnostic possibilities in roentgen diagnosis of thoracic diseases]

New feasibilities of procedure for the assessment of chest X-rays. Chest X-rays of 2800 patients were performed in order to establish a standardized procedure of optimized findings for chest X-ray evaluation. The out and in-patients consisted of men and women ranging from 17 to 89 years of age, and they suffered from diseases of all thoracic organs, from traumata, postoperative situations, and they had implantations. All visual comprehensive abnormalities observed on the X-rays were registered without any interpretation. These detail findings were gradually more and more classified and respectively sublimated to a descriptive minimum. In this way 22 detail findings of description and their differentiations as well as characterizations could be determined which were localized in 6 regions of descriptions. For the first time the region of description foreign objects was created. In consideration of pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical data the diagnosis of diseases of the chest can be found out, and even as an objective and suitable way for data-processing. Particularly control examinations and interindividual comparisons of findings can be evaluated without any doubt.