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What does no acute disease found mean in a chest x-ray ?

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Dr. Paul Williams answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

NAD on chest xray: NAD - No acute(active) disease is a terminology used to indicate that there are no acute ie infections, tumors or any sort of disease process appearing on the chest x-ray. There may be chronic changes - usually reported separately. NAD is a good thing

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Answered 1/11/2021

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