Digital radiography of the chest: detector techniques and performance parameters.

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：:This pictorial essay aims to present various lesions that could present as consolidations with diffuse of focal high attenuation on computed tomography, helping to make the diagnosis more confident and specific. The radiologic literature has limited information about such findings and the role of computed tomography i...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Marchiori E,Franquet T,Gasparetto TD,Gonçalves LP,Escuissato DL

更新日期：2008-11-01 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 incidence of fungal pneumonias has increased dramatically since the 1960s, particularly in immunocompromised patients. Fungal infections may be divided into endemic and opportunistic varieties. In general, the truly pathogenic (endemic) fungi infect healthy individuals, and opportunistic fungi usually infect only ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Haque AK

更新日期：1992-09-01 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:This study aimed to evaluate interobserver reproducibility between cardiothoracic radiologists applying the Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) to describe atherosclerotic burden on coronary computed tomography angiography. METHODS:Forty clinical computed tomography angiography cases w...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Hu JY,Bergquist PJ,Hossain R,Ropp AM,Kligerman S,Amin SB,Sechrist JW,Patel P,Jeudy J,White CS

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and worldwide. However, among the top 4 deadliest cancers, lung cancer is the only one not subject to routine screening. Optimism for an effective lung cancer-screening examination soared after the release of the National Lung Screening Trial result...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Parker MS,Groves RC,Fowler AA 3rd,Shepherd RW,Cassano AD,Cafaro PL,Chestnut GT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography (CT) is commonly used in the evaluation and management of patients with diffuse lung pathologies, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD). In clinical practice, the qualitative (visual) assessment of CT images by a radiologist provides ins...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Castillo-Saldana D,Hague CJ,Coxson HO,Ryerson CJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this essay was to demonstrate the thoracic venous anatomy as delineated by malpositioned central venous catheters on plain chest radiographs. We therefore used the didactic advantage of clinically inadvertent catheter positions. This approach was chosen to illustrate venous anatomy with plain chest radiogra...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Wunderbaldinger P,Bankier AA,Kreuzer S,Turetschek K,Fleischmann D,Herold CJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocompromised hosts have defects in their immune system that make them at risk of developing a variety of infections. In addition, these persons may develop a wide variety of noninfectious disease processes that involve the lung. These disorders may be caused by the underlying disease process. This may be seen wit...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Conces DJ Jr

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with AIDS, the relatively high incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis places them at risk for more severe esophageal tuberculosis (including fistula formation), and tuberculous esophagitis in the setting of AIDS may be more common than had been thought. Tuberculous esophageal fistulae have long been described...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Munn S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the high-resolution computed tomography (CT) and histologic findings of acute exacerbation of chronic interstitial pneumonia and to assess the potential value of CT and histologic findings in predicting prognosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The study included 24 patients with clinical and histologic diagn...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Silva CI,Müller NL,Fujimoto K,Kato S,Ichikado K,Taniguchi H,Kondoh Y,Johkoh T,Churg A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The peri-infarct zone represents the morphologic substrate for reentry ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction, and its extent is a strong predictor of major cardiac events. Although delayed gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (DGE-MRI) was shown to allow for detailed characterization ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Muzzarelli S,Ordovas KG,Cannavale G,Naeger D,Michaels AD,Higgins CB

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to determine the lobar distribution and associated radiologic/clinical findings of partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) in the adult population using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The radiology information database was queried for pat...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Ho ML,Bhalla S,Bierhals A,Gutierrez F

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Pulmonary hyalinizing granuloma (PHG) is a rare disease characterized by multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules of uncertain etiology. We describe a 71-year-old female patient with thyroid papillary carcinoma in whom bilateral pulmonary nodules were found during a routine chest radiography examination. Subsequent fluoro...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Lien CT,Yang CJ,Yang SF,Chou SH,Huang MS

更新日期：2010-05-01 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

abstract：:We studied the chest radiographs of 30 patients (39 thoracotomies) after resection of pulmonary nodules with a neodymium-YAG laser. New "nodules" were often visible in the resected areas. These gradually evolved into linear scars with or without a small, nodular component or disappeared. In 11 of 39 thoracotomies, pos...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Holbert BL,Holbert JM,Libshitz HI

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kimura's disease is a rare, chronic inflammatory disease characterized by subcutaneous nodules in the head and neck regions associated with regional cervical lymphadenopathy. Following its recognition as a pathologic entity, numerous reports have been published detailing the pathogenesis, radiologic manifestations, an...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Hobeika CM,Mohammed TL,Johnson GL,Hansen K

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular assist devices are used as a bridge to recovery, a bridge to transplant, or a permanent alternative to cardiac transplant. This exhibit demonstrates the imaging appearance of commonly used left ventricular assist devices and their complications. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Jain VR,White CS,Pierson RN 3rd,Griffith BP,Sorensen EN

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of the "reversed halo sign" 6 weeks after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of a lung neoplasm in an 80-year-old man. The "reversed halo sign," first described on computed tomography in cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, has later been described as being associated with a wide range of pulmonary pathologie...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Mango VL,Naidich DP,Godoy MC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epipericardial fat necrosis is an unusual clinical condition of unknown etiology first reported in the literature in 1957. It presents as an acute onset of chest pain and a well-defined juxtacardiac mass. Computed tomographic findings of this condition demonstrate a fat-attenuation mass that resolves over time. We pre...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Ataya D,Chowdhry AA,Mohammed TL

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:In recent years radiation risk from CT scanning has become an important area of investigation. Many authors have suggested that radiation dose can be decreased without loss of diagnostic information. This dose reduction has primarily been achieved through a decrease in tube current. An area that has received little at...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Cassese JA,Brody AS,Thomas SR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors set out to determine how histologic variability in bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma impacts dominant radiographic patterns shown by computed tomography (CT). Thoracic CT's of all patients with pathologically confirmed bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma diagnosed over a 36-month period were reviewed without...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Shah RM,Balsara G,Webster M,Friedman AC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of sarcoidosis demonstrating an unusual pattern of profuse micronodular calcification is presented. The striking similarity with the so-called pathognomonic appearance of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis and the progressive deterioration of pulmonary function are emphasized. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Weinstein DS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections of the cardiovascular system may present with nonspecific symptoms, and it is common for patients to undergo multiple investigations to arrive at the diagnosis. Echocardiography is central to the diagnosis of endocarditis and pericarditis. However, cardiac computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance ima...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Kirkbride RR,Rawal B,Mirsadraee S,Galperin-Aizenberg M,Wechalekar K,Ridge CA,Litmanovich DE

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Zygomycosis is a life-threatening fungal infection, and its successful treatment requires early diagnosis. To establish radiologic and clinical criteria for early diagnosis, we reviewed 3 post-mortem cases with zygomycosis secondary to hematological diseases. In all cases, an irregular dilatation of pulmonary veins on...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Kitagawa H,Watanabe K,Kage H,Inoh S,Goto A,Fukayama M,Nagase T,Ohishi N,Takai D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung hernia is defined as a protrusion of lung parenchyma beyond the confines of the musculoskeletal thorax. Lung hernias can be classified according to location (i.e., cervical, thoracic, or diaphragmatic) and etiology. Approximately 80% of reported cases of lung hernia are acquired, usually related to trauma or surg...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Moncada R,Vade A,Gimenez C,Rosado W,Demos TC,Turbin R,Venta L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the advent of fast-scanning multidetector-row computed tomography (CT) technology, thoracic CT studies were exclusively used for the morphologic assessment of thoracic organs, as the concurrent examination of the heart was hampered by image degradation from cardiac motion artifacts. The introduction of fast rot...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Remy-Jardin M,Faivre JB,Santangelo T,Tacelli N,Remy J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00