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

Ghana medical journal, Volume 49, No. 3, Year 2015

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.

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Citations: 28
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi: 10.4314/gmj.v49i3.6
Research Areas
Noncommunicable Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study

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