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Plain radiographs are useful in the diagnosis of many diseases or health problems. Thus, for example, are sufficient to confirm a fracture of a bone or in the lung may have an injury such as pneumonia or a tumor. The study of some parts of the body requires, however, some special techniques.

In the case of the veins or arteries to see if they are narrowed or blocked by a clot in the same need to inject a fluid opaque to X-rays called contrast. The same happens when you want to explore the digestive system: You must swallow a contrast dye to view the esophagus, stomach or small intestine or entering through the anus in the form of an enema, to see the large intestine (rectum and colon).

Computed tomography (CT) Scan is another technical advance in the use of X-rays It rays are passed in many directions by a plane of the body and using a computer can represent complex X-rays detailed images of slices of different body parts.