Glossary of terms for thoracic radiology: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the Fleischner Society.

The Fleischner Society was founded in 1969 by a group of radiologists to honor the memory of Felix Fleischner and to promote the exchange of information between basic scientists and clinical investigators interested in chest disease. Today this multidisciplinary group is best known for the Symposia on Chest Disease that it conducts annually, but it has sought, in the words of its motto, "to advance knowledge of the normal and diseased chest" in various other ways. The Glos- sary presented here represents one such effort. The Glossary was originally proposed at the first general meeting of the Society of 1971 in the belief that standardiza- tion of terms with respect to the description of radiographic findings would facilitate the exchange of information. Various members of the Society have contributed to its development over the intervening years, and though such an undertaking is never truly completed, the Glossary is now judged to be sufficiently inclusive to be of general interest. The Society, therefore, authorized its publication as a report of the Nomen- clature Committee in May 1983.