Precise tumor staging encompassing the patient’s entire body is essential in cancer management. While more advanced imaging modalities for tumor staging are available, in veterinary medicine, three-view thoracic radiography and abdominal ultrasonography are conventionally performed to screen for pulmonary and abdominal metastases. The objective of this retrospective study was to describe the us...

Sonography (US) has inherent limitations for thoracic imaging because sound waves are reflected by bone and air space (such as in lung parenchyma). However, US is less expensive and more convenient than computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); it provides immediate information with real-time imaging, and can give information not available from a standard radiograph. This re...

Thoracic actinomycosis is a well described entity. The clinical spectrum is broad, ranging from the asymptomatic patient with an abnormality on chest radiography to the chronically ill patient with fever, weight loss, and skin lesions from sinus tracts draining a lung abscess. Here we report a more unusual presentation, a patient with a chest wall lesion and right handed weakness found to be se...

A 57-year-old man presented with increasing respiratory distress. Chest radiography (Figure 1) and computed tomography (Figure 2) confirmed the diagnosis of a huge lung bulla. Bullectomy was performed (Figure 3). Subsequently, the remaining lung expanded fully to fill the hemithorax. On follow-up after 7 years, the patient was asymptomatic with fully expanded lung without any bulla. Asian Cardi...

on the use of the Rays in the field. The following chapters are concerned with the production of the radiograph, its development, and so on. The localisation of foreign bodies in the tissues is fully described. What may be considered the second portion of the book consists of the radiography of the normal bones and joints, and this is followed b}^ the conditions found when they are diseased. Th...

Venous aneurysm of the azygos arch is a very rare cause of mediastinal mass and is usually an incidental finding on chest radiography. Nowadays the diagnosis is made by non-invasive tests such as thoracic CT scanning and/or magnetic resonance imaging. The case is described of an asymptomatic woman in whom a mediastinal mass due to an azygos vein aneurysm was diagnosed by non-invasive procedures...

Traumatic reticulo-peritonitis and diaphragmatic hernia are the known serious sequelae of digestive disturbance and recurrent tympani in bovines. Further, traumatic pericarditis and lung abscess are results of penetration of pericardium and lung by a sharp penetrating foreign body respectively. In chronic cases, it becomes very difficult to differentiate between these conditions. Hence, on the ...

Venous aneurysm of the azygos arch is a very rare cause of mediastinal mass and is usually an incidental finding on chest radiography. Nowadays the diagnosis is made by non-invasive tests such as thoracic CT scanning and/or magnetic resonance imaging. The case is described of an asymptomatic woman in whom a mediastinal mass due to an azygos vein aneurysm was diagnosed by non-invasive procedures...

Figure 1: (A) Chest radiography revealed a 1.5-cm radio-opaque density at the level of the T4-5 vertebrae. (B and C) Chest computed tomography demonstrated bilateral neck subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum with a tubular structure, 15 cm in length, in the cervical and upper thoracic oesophagus. (D) The upper posterior mediastinal pleura were opened, and a ballpoint pen was found betwe...

An 86-year-old man presented with bilateral lower limb edema and was found to have hydropneumothorax on chest radiography. CT revealed a substantial pleural effusion plaques. The patient had history of working in stone workshop, but the extent asbestos exposure remained unknown. Thoracic drainage subsequent thoracoscopic surgery confirmed presence biphasic malignant mesothelioma through patholo...