Massive malignant pleural effusion due to lung adenocarcinoma in 13-year-old boy [PDF]
, 2016 A 13-year-old boy with no risk factors for lung cancer presented with a massive left-sided pleural effusion and a mediastinal shift on chest radiography and computed tomography. A chest tube drained bloody pleural fluid with an exudative pattern.
Afghani, R. +5 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Pulmonary actinomycosis is a chronic disease characterized by abscess formation, draining sinuses, fistulae, and tissue fibrosis. It can mimic other conditions, particularly malignant and granulomatous diseases, and is perhaps extremely ...
Shinichi Miyazaki +8 more
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EGFR inhibitor as second-line therapy in a patient with mutant RAS metastatic colorectal cancer: circulating tumor DNA to personalize treatment [PDF]
, 2018 A 47-year-old male patient presented in March 2016 to our unit with a palpable painless left supraclavicular mass. A whole-body contrastenhanced computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a left supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, transverse colon thickening ...
Cortesi, Enrico +3 more
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Risk factors of pneumothorax and chest tube placement after computed tomography-guided core needle biopsy of lung lesions : a single-centre experience with 822 biopsies [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: To determine the risk factors of pneumothorax and chest tube placement after computed tomography-guided core needle lung biopsy (CT-CNB). Material and methods: Variables that could increase the risk of pneumothorax and chest tube placement were ...
Gokalp, Gokhan +3 more
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Myocardial bridging as one of the causes of atypical chest pain in young women
The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2017 Introduction: Myocardial bridging is congenital anomaly which usually has benign prognosis but there are also reports suggesting that it can be associated with ischemic clinical syndromes presenting with chest pain.
M. Jukić +6 more
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48-year-old with Coronavirus Disease 2019 [PDF]
, 2020 Case Presentation: A 48-year-old male who presented with signs and symptoms suggestive of an upper respiratory infection was seen at an urgent care, he had a negative chest radiograph and was discharged.
Finn, Ryan M. +2 more
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Evaluation of some spiral and sequential computed tomography protocols of adults used in three hospitals in Shiraz, Iran with American College of Radiology and European Commission guidelines [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: Use of computed tomography (CT) has increased considerably all over the world. In addition, there has been an increased demand for utilisation of CT scanning in Iran over the past decade, especially after introducing multi-detector computed ...
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Crowdsourcing airway annotations in chest computed tomography images.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Measuring airways in chest computed tomography (CT) scans is important for characterizing diseases such as cystic fibrosis, yet very time-consuming to perform manually.
Veronika Cheplygina +4 more
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Utility of computed chest tomography in recurrent uveitis
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2006 Teotia Sanjay
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A Hidden Complication of Pigtail Catheter Insertion [PDF]
, 2020 Pigtail catheters have emerged as an effective and less morbid alternative to traditional chest tubes for evacuation of pleural air. Rare complications in the literature have been reported.
Brandao Neto, Rodrigo A. +3 more
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