Chest radiograph scoring system for use in preterm infants

Papers dealing with the chest radiograph in pre-term infants are sufficiently rare in the British radiological literature to merit enhanced attention. Yuksel et al (1991) are to be congratulated in helping to refine those features which have a bearing on the outcome of chronic lung disease in these infants. Although not germane to the theme of the paper, I was struck by the fact that two patients had lobectomies because of expanding air cysts.