Digital radiography: a review.
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G H Beute
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Hemophilus influenzae pneumonia in the adult. Radiographic appearance with clinical correlation.
Hemophilus influenzae septicemia is an important cause of life-threatening pneumonia in an immunocompromised patient. Eleven cases proved by blood culture were analyzed. Multilobar involvement with lobar or segmental consolidation and pleural effusion were common radiographic findings, but there were no signs of lobar expansion, bulging fissures, or cavitation. In general, predisposing factors such as alcoholism and chemotherapy place patients at risk. Radiographic response to therapy is variable but often lags behind clinical improvement.
Adolescent↗
Computed tomographic evaluation of intrathoracic thyroid malignancy.
As only a few cases of intrathoracic thyroid malignancy with computed tomographic (CT) examination have been described, we reviewed the CT examinations of three patients with primary and five patients with recurrent thyroid malignancy involving the thorax. Irregular border of the thyroid mass, extension of tumor mass into mediastinal fat or chest wall, or lymphadenopathy suggested the malignant nature of the primary tumor. CT examination in recurrent disease demonstrated mediastinal, hilar and retrocrural adenopathy, compression of major vessels with collateral flow, pulmonary and bony metastases. CT was of value both in identifying the extent of disease and documenting response to treatment.
Adenocarcinoma↗
Limitations of CT in evaluation of neoplasms involving chest wall.
We reviewed the CT of 20 patients with peripheral lung malignancies in which CT appearance suggested chest wall invasion on the basis of extension of mass around ribs into fat or muscle of the chest wall, or definite bone destruction. We correlated these findings with other radiographic studies and surgical and autopsy results. All 11 cases in which CT indicated chest wall involvement on the basis of definite bone destruction were confirmed. Tumor extension into the chest wall was disproven in six of the remaining nine cases in which invasion was suggested on the basis of tumor infiltration between ribs or extension of tumor into fat or soft tissue planes. Our findings confirm the lack of reliability of CT findings in determining the extension of malignancy into the chest wall, except when definite bone destruction is present.
Adenocarcinoma↗
Chest radiographic image quality: comparison of asymmetric screen-film, digital storage phosphor, and digital selenium drum systems--preliminary study.
Conventional screen-film radiography does not display all regions of the thorax satisfactorily. Three chest radiographic techniques display both the lung and the mediastinum with good contrast. These techniques are asymmetric screen-film (ASF), digital storage phosphor (DSP), and digital selenium drum (DSD) imaging. ASF systems use two asymmetric screen-film combinations to produce a wide-latitude image of the thorax with good contrast in the lungs. In DSP systems, image data are acquired digitally with a wide dynamic range by using the optical output of a photostimulable phosphor plate; in DSD systems, the wide-range digital image data are acquired by using the electronic charge generated on a drum coated with a thin layer of amorphous selenium. The appearance of a DSP or DSD radiograph is then determined by user-selected image processing operations: tone scaling, spatial frequency processing, and dynamic range compensation. Digital chest radiographs processed with strong regional equalization provide both excellent contrast in the lungs and effective display of the mediastinum and chest wall. At visual comparison, the high lung contrast and good mediastinal, retrocardiac, and subdiaphragmatic detail provided by the DSD method distinguish it from the other two methods.
Humans↗