Kaposi sarcoma in a renal transplant patient.

abstract：:Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation caused by the larval stage of a tapeworm of the genus Echinococcus. This report describes an extremely rare complication of echinococcal disease in which severe pulmonary hypertension developed after massive hydatid pulmonary embolism. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Franquet T,Plaza V,Llauger J,Giménez A,Bordes R

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When natural disasters demolish shelter, destroy sources of clean drinking water, and disrupt the availability of medical care, vast numbers of people are placed at increased risk of disease. The infectious diseases that propagate under these conditions are usually common ones. Occasionally, a natural disaster alters ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Ketai L,Currie BJ,Alva Lopez LF

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interventional bronchoscopy, together with other domains of interventional pulmonology, has experienced tremendous technological advances. Diagnostic applications include endobronchial ultrasound, which enables endoscopists to see through airway walls. White light videobronchoscopy, autofluorescence imaging, and narro...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Ernst A,Anantham D

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) and surgical pulmonary valve replacement (SPVR) on biventricular and pulmonary valve function using cardiac magnetic resonance. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thirty-five patients aged 20±8 years (mean±SD) underwent PPV...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Secchi F,Resta EC,Cannaò PM,Pluchinotta F,Piazza L,Butera G,Carminati M,Sardanelli F

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cardiac involvement is an important prognostic factor in sarcoidosis, and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) can facilitate the identification of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). In patients with CS, we investigated LGE characteristics and their relationship with lef...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Watanabe E,Kimura F,Nakajima T,Hiroe M,Kasai Y,Nagata M,Kawana M,Hagiwara N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Immunocompromised patients are encountered with increasing frequency in clinical practice. In addition to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), therapy for malignant disease, and immune suppression for solid organ transplants, patients are now rendered immunosuppressed by advances in treatment for a wide vari...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Tanaka N,Kunihiro Y,Yanagawa N

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) can play a role in diagnosis of coronary artery disease and in the assessment of left ventricle (LV) and right ventricle global function, with initial good correlation results with standard modalities. With the latest scanners, regional LV contractility with both qualitative an...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Savino G,Zwerner P,Herzog C,Politi M,Bonomo L,Costello P,Schoepf UJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Distribution of pulmonary vascularity, as imaged on the routine chest radiograph, may be used as an accurate and sensitive indicator of underlying pathophysiologic change. The lungs, like most other human organ systems, have extensive reserve capability. Such reserves exist in terms of excess alveolar capacity in the ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Ravin CE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hemangiomas are rare, benign primary cardiac neoplasms. We describe the CT and MR imaging findings of a cardiac hemangioma arising from the myocardium of the left atrial appendage and protruding into the pericardial cavity. The tumor displayed homogenous density on CT, heterogeneous signal intensity on MR, and...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Oshima H,Hara M,Kono T,Shibamoto Y,Mishima A,Akita S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer screening computed tomographies (CTs) differ from traditional chest CT scans in that they are performed at very low radiation doses, which allow the detection of small nodules but which have a much higher noise content than would be acceptable in a diagnostic chest CT. The technical parameters require a gr...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Donnelly EF

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumatic nail guns are a tool used commonly in the construction industry and are widely available. Accidental injuries from nail guns are common, and several cases of suicide using a nail gun have been reported. Computed tomographic (CT) imaging, together with echocardiography, has been shown to be the gold standard ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： OʼLeary DP,Soo A,McLaughlin P,Aherne T

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：:Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography has become the diagnostic procedure of choice in patients suspected of having a pulmonary embolus. However, intrapulmonary shunting of blood in a variety of pathologic conditions can cause suboptimal opacification of the pulmonary arterial circulation and result in a suboptim...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Tafti BA,Berenji GR,Santiago S,Barack BM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this controlled study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of round atelectasis (RA). We reviewed two groups of chest CT scans of 22 patients (with 24 masses). Group 1 scans represent 10 patients (12 masses) known to have RA, and Group 2 scans represent 1...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： O'Donovan PB,Schenk M,Lim K,Obuchowski N,Stoller JK

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Future radionuclide studies in the lung will encompass not only improved evaluation of regional ventilation and perfusion in pulmonary embolism and lung cancer, but should also provide new information about alveolar-capillary permeability, cell kinetics in the lung, and pulmonary metabolism and receptors. With this in...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Alderson PO

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a patient with histologically confirmed pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis and thin-section computed tomography findings mimicking Langerhans cell histioctytosis. The description emphasizes the nonspecificity of the computed tomography findings in this patient. This report also suggests that the compu...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Keyzer C,Bankier AA,Remmelinck M,Gevenois PA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is an important but underdiagnosed form of interstitial lung disease. Its clinical hallmark is recurrent or chronic pulmonary symptoms of variable severity associated with an array of systemic symptoms but without extrapulmonary structural abnormalities. Clinical suspicion is the key to di...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Chiu A,Pegram PS Jr,Haponik EF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Myocardial extracellular volume fraction (ECV) using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can identify diffuse lesions not detected by late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). We aimed to determine the prevalence of increased ECV and its relation to other CMR findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Consecutive patients (...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Lundin M,Sörensson P,Maret E,Jenner J,Abdula G,Nickander J,Themudo R,Caidahl K,Kellman P,Sigfridsson A,Ugander M

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is defined as a preventable and treatable disease state characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. This review will discuss the relevant anatomy of the secondary pulmonary lobule, the subtypes of emphysema, and their imaging appearances and corresponding pat...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Pipavath SN,Schmidt RA,Takasugi JE,Godwin JD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) rarely arises from tuberculous empyema. We report a case in which magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was useful in separating the lymphoma from the chronic empyema. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Fujiwara T,Kasahara H,Tanohata K,Nagase M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, there is an ordered progression of immunologic abnormalities that results from the selective infection of the T4 helper/inducer subset of T lymphocytes. The loss of helper T-cell function disrupts both the cellular and humoral aspects of the immune response. The ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Batra P

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is the test of choice for patients with acute chest pain and suspected pulmonary embolism (PE). This examination is excellent for the diagnosis of PE and can also often identify alternative diagnoses. The early phase of contrast, however, may not allow for optim...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Anderson JF,Raptis C,Bhalla S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufficient trauma to the chest can result in injury to the bony thorax and soft tissues of the chest wall, increasing patient morbidity and mortality. Fractured ribs can lacerate the pleura, lung, or abdominal organs. Fractures to upper ribs, clavicle, and upper sternum can signal brachial plexus or vascular injury. P...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Collins J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleural infection by Cryptococcus neoformans is uncommon and when present typically occurs in the immunocompromised host. We report two renal transplant patients who developed pleural cryptococcosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic imaging

authors： Conces DJ Jr,Vix VA,Tarver RD

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00