Primary chordoid meningioma of the lung.

abstract：:With the growing substance use disorders epidemic in the United States, a wide range of complications may be seen in both the acute and chronic clinical setting. This article will use a multimodality approach to review complications of intravenous substance use that cardiothoracic radiologists are likely to encounter....

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Hossain R,Almeida RR,Natcheva H,Hedgire S,Ghoshhajra B,Shepard JA,Fintelmann FJ,Flores EJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the correlation between a septal angle measured on computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) determined by right heart catheterization in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Eighty-six patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Liu M,Ma ZH,Guo XJ,Wang SK,Chen XY,Yang YH,Wang C

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the publication of the Radiologic Diagnostic Oncology Group Report in 1991, the clinical application of pulmonary magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with lung cancer has been limited. In contrast, MRI for lung cancer has undergone continuous development, and several promising techniques have been intro...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Koyama H,Ohno Y,Seki S,Nishio M,Yoshikawa T,Matsumoto S,Sugimura K

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increased awareness of smoking-related lung diseases other than lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Concurrently, there is general acceptance that there is difficulty in establishing a specific diagnosis of smoking-related interstitial lung disease (ILD), as many patients may not undergo bi...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Madan R,Matalon S,Vivero M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:A 59-year-old man who underwent chest radiography to exclude pneumonia showed an irregular nodular shadow in the left lower lung. A subsequent CT scan revealed an irregularly shaped soft-tissue mass consisting of two components: a peripheral round mass with spiculated margins and a well-circumscribed branching ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Murata Y,Inomata T,Yamamoto A,Yamashiro T,Moriki T,Yoshida S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current Dana Point Classification system (2009) distinguishes elevation of pulmonary arterial pressure into pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary hypertension. Fortunately, PAH is not a common disease. However, with the aging of the First World's population, heart failure has become an important outc...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Schiebler ML,Bhalla S,Runo J,Jarjour N,Roldan A,Chesler N,François CJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation is a well-accepted treatment for numerous lung diseases when medical or surgical therapy is ineffective or unavailable and the patient has a limited life expectancy (usually less than 2 to 3 years). When appropriate, single-lung transplantation is the preferred procedure because of a critical shor...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Collins J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:To assess the radiologic findings of systemic arterial supply to the normal basal segments of the left lower lobe, chest radiographs and CT scans of all 11 patients were reviewed retrospectively by two chest radiologists. On posteroanterior chest radiographs (n = 11), the anomalous systemic artery arising from ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Kim TS,Lee KS,Im JG,Goo JM,Park JS,Kim JH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to elucidate the impact of being unmarried on coronary computed tomography (CT) imaging biomarkers and mortality in a lung cancer screening population. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In this retrospective case-control study, 5707 subjects (3777 married; mean age: 61.9±5.1 y and 1930 unmarr...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Celeng C,Takx RAP,Lessmann N,Maurovich-Horvat P,Leiner T,Išgum I,de Jong PA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) may be idiopathic or related to a variety of diseases. The diagnosis, accurate assessment of etiology and severity, prognosis, treatment response, and follow-up of PH can be achieved using a diverse set of diagnostic examinations. In this review, the role of imaging in the evaluation of PH ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Brown K,Gutierrez AJ,Mohammed TL,Kirsch J,Chung JH,Dyer DS,Ginsburg ME,Heitkamp DE,Kanne JP,Kazerooni EA,Ketai LH,Parker JA,Ravenel JG,Saleh AG,Shah RD,Steiner RM,Suh RD,Expert Panel on Thoracic Imaging.

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthoracic needle biopsy (TNB) of the mediastinum is an accurate, safe, and cost-effective diagnostic tool for the evaluation of mediastinal masses and lymphadenopathy. The technique is most useful in the staging of carcinoma, where it serves as a less expensive and minimally invasive alternative to mediastinoscopy...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Protopapas Z,Westcott JL

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim was to evaluate computed tomography (CT)-measured pulmonary artery diameter (PAD) and lung density as predictors of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in subjects with systemic sclerosis (SSc). We compared these PAD values with normal values and between SSc subgroups with PH and/or interstitial lung disease (I...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Bakker ME,Ninaber MK,Stolk J,Kroft LJM,Schouffoer AA,de Vries Bouwstra JK,van Wijngaarden SE,Stoel BC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of treatment in patients with early asymptomatic HIV disease has recently improved. Clinical trials with zidovudine have demonstrated efficacy and greatly reduced toxicity when the drug is used in asymptomatic HIV-infected persons who have fewer than 500 CD4+ cells/mm3, and resistance to this drug in these...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Volberding P

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty years ago there was less interest in thromboembolism than there is now, although it was apparent even at that time that many episodes of embolization were being missed. Retrospective autopsy studies had indicated a 40% to 60% incidence of pulmonary emboli. Such studies were reviewed in a prospective study of 263...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Nicholson D

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a major health problem worldwide. The incidence of pneumonia increases with both age and the presence of specific risk factors, which lead to increased health care costs. However, although there is some controversy over the observed trend in CAP mortality over recent decades,...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Cillóniz C,Rodríguez-Hurtado D,Nicolini A,Torres A

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic cardiac liposarcoma is rare. A right ventricular liposarcoma metastasis is described in a 46-year-old man, who was admitted with significant shortness of breath and fatigue, and in whom a large lobulated low attenuation mass occupying most of the right ventricular cavity, with extension through the right ve...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Chughtai A,Cronin P,Lucas DR,Prager R,Kazerooni EA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that destruction of the distal capillary bed from extensive fibrosis and honeycombing in the setting of sarcoidosis may lead to pulmonary hypertension. However, we report an unusual manifestation of sarcoidosis where pulmonary hypertension resulted from granulomatous involvement of the pulmonary veins...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Padia SA,Budev M,Farver CF,Mohammed TL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although rounded atelectasis was recognized in 1928, its relationship to fibrotic pleural disease almost has gone unnoticed. We present four cases of lobar rounded atelectasis that help to clarify this relationship. Rounded atelectasis is part of the spectrum of fibrous pleural disease. Any portion of lung may become ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Cohen AM,Crass JR,Chung-Park M,Tomashefski JF Jr

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With more sophisticated medical procedures and treatment for the critically ill patient, iatrogenic damage to the thorax has become increasingly common. But simple radiologic procedures, such as chest radiography and fluoroscopy, permit diagnosis of unsuspected and clinically silent complications. A very important iat...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Ovenfors CO

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an analysis of 36 central lung, 54 mediastinal, and 10 central pleural masses, features were sought that would allow accurate localization of the mass by CT. The mass-lung interface was the most useful feature; with few exceptions a mass with a spiculated, nodular, or irregular edge was in the lung, and a mass with...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Woodring JH,Johnson PJ

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary artery dissection is a rare but life-threatening disease, which has mainly been diagnosed at postmortem examination rather than in living patients. Herein we report an unusual case of pulmonary artery dissection involving the right and left pulmonary arteries with Eisenmenger syndrome confirmed by multidetec...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Peng LQ,Yu JQ,Chu ZG,Yuan HM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of respiratory motion and imaging at low tidal volumes can easily obscure normal anatomy as well as pathology on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) images of the lungs in infants and young children. The benefits of motion-free HRCT in children at full inflation and end exhalation compared with HRCT...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Long FR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST) found a reduction in lung cancer mortality in high-risk patients aged 55 to 74 who were screened with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) rather than chest x-ray. This reduction was 20% after 6.5 years and 16% after 7.5 years, with a 6.7% reduction in all-cause mortality...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Zuckerman D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis is predominantly a tropical disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a soil-dwelling gram-negative, aerobic bacillus that is distributed primarily in southeast Asia and northern Australia. In this pictorial essay, we provide an illustrated review and conceptual framework of the protean imaging features...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Ko SF,Kung CT,Lee YW,Ng SH,Huang CC,Lee CH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the literature for articles assessing radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for pulmonary malignancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The "bottom-up" approach to evidence-based practice was applied by 2 reviewers to the retrieval and appraisal of original research articles published on pulm...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Chan VO,McDermott S,Malone DE,Dodd JD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of the study was to compare both reproducibility and prognostic value of lesion size measurements obtained manually and semiautomatically on computed tomography in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Manual axial longest diameter, semiautomatic axial longest diameter, and...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Colombi D,Manna C,Montermini I,Seletti V,Diciotti S,Tiseo M,Fontana E,De Filippo M,Silva M,Sverzellati N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased detection of incidental small pulmonary nodules on multidetector computed tomography has driven attempts to refine the characterization and management of such nodules. A variety of methods have been developed to measure the size and biological activity of nodules to help define their nature, but these ha...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Nair A,Baldwin DR,Field JK,Hansell DM,Devaraj A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied computed tomographic (CT) appearance of muscle or omental flap transposition procedures in ten patients following clinically diagnosed poststernotomy mediastinitis. Patients were examined either to rule out persistent infection or as part of routine follow-up. An increased amount of soft tissue between open...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Coppage L,Jolles H,Wornom IL 3rd

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulmonary nodule was incidentally detected in a 50-year-old man during a routine health evaluation. High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) showed that the lesion had the appearance of a collection of multiple tiny nodules. Histologic examination of the resected specimen revealed a single hamartoma resembling a b...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Shinkai M,Kobayashi H,Kanoh S,Ozeki Y,Aida S,Motoyoshi K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of the study was to evaluate 70 kVp dual-source computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) with reduced iodine load in comparison with single-source 70 and 100 kVp CTPA with standard iodine load regarding image quality and radiation dose. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Three groups with 40 consecutive...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Wichmann JL,Hu X,Kerl JM,Schulz B,Frellesen C,Bodelle B,Kaup M,Scholtz JE,Lehnert T,Vogl TJ,Bauer RW

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00