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Q: What does lateral on x ray mean?
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They're probably refering to lateral curvature, which would be scoliosis.


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The medical word for getting an x-ray is known as roentgenography. During this procedure the patient is placed between the x-ray beam and an x-ray plate. The x-ray beams reflect through the patient body to the x-ray plate.


What view does the x-ray beam pass from one side of the body to the opposite side?

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According to Stedman's Radiology Words Includes Nuclear Medicine & Other Imaging, Fourth Edition, it is frogleg lateral view.


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This position is used in radiological (x-ray) positioning. A rule of thumb is that 2 x-rays at right angles should always be obtained, one supine or prone and one lateral.


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