we aimed to evaluate clinical, high resolution computed tomography (hrct) and pulmonary function test (pft) findings after 18-23 years of exposure in veterans of sulphur mustard (sm) exposure. we performed a cross-sectional study of 106 patients. inclusion criteria were 1: documented exposure to sm as confirmed by toxicological analysis of their urine and vesicular fluid after exposure 2: singl...

usefulness of HRCT scanning for diagnosis of this disease. Other previously reported CT findings of the disease include increased soft tissue density of the mediastinum 2 and mediastinal and hilar lymph adenopathies, but such findings were absent in our case. Possible explanations for the stable condition of our case over a long period are either that it was a chance discovery of an early phase...

It has been suggested that radiation doses due to high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest are considerably higher than those from conventional CT. We compared the effective dose (E, mSv) in conventional chest CT (10-mm contiguous slices) and HRCT (1.5-mm slices, gap 10 mm). In our study, the effective dose from a HRCT (0.98 mSv) is about 6.5 times less than the effective dose fr...

On HRCT scans, lung cysts are characterized by rounded areas of low attenuation in the lung parenchyma and a well-defined interface with the normal adjacent lung. The most common cystic lung diseases are lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Langerhans cell histiocytosis, and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia. In a retrospective analysis of the HRCT findings in 50 patients diagnosed with chronic paracocci...

Introduction: Arteria lusoria is an aberrant right subclavian artery. In symptomatic cases, patients report dysphagia and only in few cases dyspnea, due to external compression of the trachea and esophagus. Symptoms occur in advanced age and diagnosis is made with chest HRCT, when other causes of dysphagia have been excluded.    Case Report: An 83-year-old woman presented with dyspnea and m...

usefulness of HRCT scanning for diagnosis of this disease. Other previously reported CT findings of the disease include increased soft tissue density of the mediastinum 2 and mediastinal and hilar lymph adenopathies, but such findings were absent in our case. Possible explanations for the stable condition of our case over a long period are either that it was a chance discovery of an early phase...

We report a 74-year-old woman with cervical cancer who developed pulmonary cryptococcosis which presented as a solitary focal ground-glass opacity (GGO) on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). Serial HRCT showed the progression from the GGO to a discrete solid nodule. We hypothesize that the initial GGO may correspond pathologically to partial filling of air spaces with cryptococcal orga...

usefulness of HRCT scanning for diagnosis of this disease. Other previously reported CT findings of the disease include increased soft tissue density of the mediastinum 2 and mediastinal and hilar lymph adenopathies, but such findings were absent in our case. Possible explanations for the stable condition of our case over a long period are either that it was a chance discovery of an early phase...

usefulness of HRCT scanning for diagnosis of this disease. Other previously reported CT findings of the disease include increased soft tissue density of the mediastinum 2 and mediastinal and hilar lymph adenopathies, but such findings were absent in our case. Possible explanations for the stable condition of our case over a long period are either that it was a chance discovery of an early phase...