TY - JOUR T1 - Unusual chest radiograph finding plombs old depths JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 143 LP - 143 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X677572 VL - 64 IS - 620 AU - Nyla Khan Y1 - 2014/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/620/143.abstract N2 - Imaging taken early last Autumn in the hospital I worked in revealed startling images. Multiple round ring shadows, overlapping against each other, were clearly visible in the apices of both lung fields in the chest radiograph of a patient who had just been newly admitted. The junior doctors involved in the immediate care of the patient requested an urgent report on the X-ray, which confirmed that the patient had been the recipient of ‘plombage’, a form of surgical therapy used for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) before the 1950s and prior to the use of antituberculosis drugs; the opacities in this case being ping pong balls.Plombage was … ER -