The majority of these fractures are found on plain film radiography.

Plain films add valuable information in the initial evaluation or screening.

These cannot be determined by plain films, as the x-ray passes through the soft tissue.

The contrast film relates to the paint differently than the plain film.

In all patients, plain films of the abdomen showed abnormal gastrointestinal gas.

The fracture is diagnosed by plain film examination.

Plain films may not correlate with the findings on physical examination or with the degree of pain.

Plain films can help identify bone spurs and fractures that may have injured the nerve.

Differentiating an enchondroma from a bone infarct on plain film may be difficult.

CT is more sensitive than plain films for the detection of early bone destruction and effusion.

In those with degenerative disease of the cervical spine, a plain film series is often inadequate to assess for injury.

The pathognomonic finding on plain films is pneumatosis intestinalis.

X-rays (radiography) are divided by two types: plain film and constrat techniques.

-These in my hand are plain films.

Diagnostic techniques available include plain film chest x-ray, computed tomography (CT), and ultrasound.

The calcification is usually identified on CT scan but may be visible on plain films of the skull.

In addition, broken, missing or malaligned teeth can often be appreciated on a panormic image which is frequently lost in plain films.

On plain film the inferior aspect of the clavicle will be above the superior aspect of the acromion.

Traditionally, plain films of the mandible would be exposed but had lower sensitivity and specificity owing to overlap of structures.

Calcification is an unusual feature of GIST but if present can be visible on plain films.

Projectional radiography or plain film radiography is the practice of producing two-dimensional images using x-ray radiation.

With cervical esophageal perforations, plain films of the neck show air in the soft tissues of the prevertebral space.

Diagnosis can be established using plain film x-rays as well as CT scan of the neck/cervical spine.

Plain film lateral x-rays can be used to evaluate for translations anteriorly (anterolisthesis) or posteriorly (retrolisthesis).

For a tumor to be seen on plain film it must be big enough and it must be more dense than the surrounding normal tissue."