HI Carlyn, i am dr.akash kumar and i will clear your doubts regarding your xray results. Regular chest X-ray involves a back to front view and a side view. The lungs are filled with air and they appear as dark shadows on a chest X-ray film. Anything denser than air will appear white on the film. Your chest X-ray shows that there are radio-opaque spots (densities) in upper part of right lung that should not be there. An enlarged heart will alert the radiologist to other disease conditions. Your heart is of normal size. The diaphragm is the breathing muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. It consists of the left hemidiaphragm (sitting under the left lung and above the stomach) and the right hemidiaphragm (sitting under the right lung and above the liver). The costophrenic sulci are spaces where the diaphragm joins with the lower ribs. Yours are normal. Dirts that are accidentally introduced during film development can cause artifacts to appear as suspicious foci on the film. That is why the radiologist has to confirm any suspicious findings. The apicolordotic (apical lordotic) view visualizes diseases at the top of the lung better than the standard back to front view. It looks for pulmonary nodules that are lesions from pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), or pulmonary nodules that are either benign (tumor) or malignant (cancer). apical=apex, tip or top of an object lordotic=curvature of the neck (cervical) or back (lumbar) thank you ,feel free to ask for any quiries dr.akash kumar