                                 FINAL REPORT
 REASON FOR EXAMINATION:  Evaluation of the patient with history of diabetes
 mellitus, high blood pressure and increasing dyspnea  _.
 
 PA and lateral upright chest radiographs were reviewed in comparison to .
 
 Heart size is top normal, stable.  Lungs are essentially clear.  No pleural
 effusion or pneumothorax is seen.  Lateral view demonstrates chronic linear
 opacity in the left lower lung, most likely consistent with atelectasis.
