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If you have cough and colds are they detected in chest x-ray?
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Maybe: The chest x-ray is performed to determine if your symptoms may be due to pneumonia, heart failure, of fluid accumulating in the space around the lung (pleural space). A patient with common cold will usually have a normal chest x-ray. A cough can be a symptom associated with the above mentioned problems.
Answered 5/16/2014
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Not usually: Only when upper respiratory infection turns into pneumonia can it be detected,
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