JBR-BTR : organe de la Société royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
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A 23-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea. Chest X-ray showed reticulo-nodular opacities. ⋯ Histologic examination confirmed the diagnosis. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a rare disease but an important diagnosis to make as treatment with pulmonary lavage is curative in a large proportion of patients.
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Emergency medicine is a recent discipline which relies much on emergency radiology. Emergency physicians are developing specific diagnostic work-ups and therapies for emergency conditions and exploring specific management of the department, attesting of a growing interest in emergency medicine radiology. In this article we give a survey of the history of emergency medicine radiology and we discuss this rather young subdiscipline of radiology.