Chest CT scanning: utility in lung endometriosis

clinical utility of chest computed tomography in patients with rib fractures ct chest and rib fractures

methods retrospective cohort study of blunt trauma patients with rib fractures at a level i trauma center that had both a cxr and a ct chest. the ct finding of ≥ 3 additional fractures in patients with ≤ 3 rib fractures on cxr was considered clinically meaningful. student’s t-test and chi-square analysis were used for comparison. results we identified 499 patients with rib fractures: 93 (18.6%)...

Radiation overdose: the utility of ct scanning in self poisoning

Introduction The UK has one of the highest deliberate self-poisoning overdoses within Europe [1]. The majority of them have a short length of stay with a low mortality. Patients commonly present with a reduced GCS, triggering the order for a CT scan. This is generally despite the absence of lateralising neurology, leading to multiple scans, especially for recurrent overdoses, often providing li...

Clinical Utility of Chest Computed Tomography in Patients with Rib Fractures CT Chest and Rib Fractures

BACKGROUND Chest CT is more sensitive than a chest X-ray (CXR) in diagnosing rib fractures; however, the clinical significance of these fractures remains unclear. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the added diagnostic use of chest CT performed after CXR in patients with either known or suspected rib fractures secondary to blunt trauma. METHODS Retrospective cohort study ...

Automatic identification of lung abnormalities in chest spiral CT scans

This research aims at developing a fully automatic ComputerAssisted Diagnosis (CAD) system for lung cancer screening using chest spiral CT scans. One thousand subjects are enrolled in a chest cancer screening program in Louisville, KY, USA, which aims at quantification of the effectiveness of low dose spiral CT scans for early diagnosis of lung cancer, and evaluating its possible impact on impr...

Chest CT in the staging of lung cancer.