Introduction and objectives Chest X-ray (CXR), CT and Ultrasound (US) are commonly used to evaluate the size of pleural effusions. Accurate description of size is important in the communication of ...

This procedure can aid in differentiating loculated effusions from atelectasis or consolidation, and facilitates pleural fluid analysis if not previously conducted. An exception to this would be if ...

A 5-month-old boy was transferred to our tertiary care center from a community hospital for workup of a unilateral pleural effusion ... A computed tomography scan of the abdomen and pelvis ...

Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...

If you've suffered a serious injury or your doctor suspects cancer, a CT scan could be lifesaving. But since 1980, the number of those tests done each year has grown from fewer than 3 million to ...

Safe Outpatient Treatment of CNS Lymphoma Achieved by Using Glucarpidase After High-Dose Methotrexate ...

CT scans are diagnostic tests that Medicare covers if they are medically necessary and a healthcare professional orders them. Original Medicare comprises Part A, covering inpatient hospital care ...

The connection between systemic immune reactions in the blood and local immune reactions in pleural effusions remains unclear. This study provides the first comprehensive immunological ...

There are numerous advantages in the use of CT data for attenuation correction of emission data. First, the CT scan provides a high photon flux that significantly reduces the statistical noise ...

PET scans can be used to determine how much cancer is in a person's body and how far the cancer has spread, which is called staging. Since PET scans can detect more cancerous sites than CT scans alone ...