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What is PA scan?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

In medical usage, a PA scan is an X-ray take from the back (or Posterior) side, and viewed from the front (or Anterior.)

Visualize holding

a piece of paper up to a light, and reading it. You are looking through the paper and viewing it from the front. That is a PA scan or view.

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12y ago

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