• Age and ageing · May 1986

    The role of chest radiography in the evaluation of the 'geriatric giants'.

    • J A Puxty and K Andrews.
    • Age Ageing. 1986 May 1;15(3):174-6.

    AbstractThree hundred and eighty admissions to a geriatric assessment unit had a routine chest radiograph. Forty-four per cent presented atypically with one or more of Isaacs' 'geriatric giants'--falls, immobility, incontinence or deteriorating mental function. The chest radiograph was abnormal in 164 (44%), of whom 57 had no classical clinical cardiopulmonary features. The chest radiograph was especially useful in the investigation of the geriatric giants, where 22% had evidence of cardiopulmonary disease, in the absence of classical clinical features.

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