Tomography, X-Ray ComputedVascular DiseasesAdultFemaleA 32-year-old nonsmoking woman was admitted to our hospital with progressive dyspnea on exertion and right-sided pleuritic chest pain for the past three months. The patient had been well until 2 years earlier when she developed periodic upper ...
Hilar cholangiocarcinoma usually appears on CT scans as a low-density or isodense mass that abruptly obstructs converging dilated bile ducts. In four of six patients with histopathologically proved hilar cholangiocarcinoma who had late enhanced CT 8-15 min after dynamic CT, the lesion was seen as...
A 67-year-old man who is a long-term smoker presents with weight loss, a persistent cough, fever, chest pain, and hemoptysis. A chest x-ray reveals a 3.5cm hilar mass on the right and postobstructive pneumonia of the right lower lobe. Sputum cytologic is suspicious for malignant cells....
Computed X-ray Tomography HCCA: Hilar cholangiocarcinoma MRCP: Magnetic Resonance CholangioPancreatography NCCN: National Comprehensive Cancer Network TBil: Total Bilirubin References de Jong MC, Marques H, Clary BM, Bauer TW, Marsh JW, Ribero D, Majno P, Hatzaras I, Walters DM, Barbas ...
Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry PFGE: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis References Jang J, Hur HG, Sadowsky MJ, Byappanahalli MN, Yan T, Ishii S. Environmental Escherichia coli: ecology and public health implications-a review. J Appl Microbiol. 2017;123...
Eighteen patients presented with symptoms and 9 were detected by the mass screening examination of sputum cytology. All lesions in both groups were finally diagnosed by bronchoscopy. Twenty patients (74%) had positive sputum cytology, whereas only 7 (26%) had positive chest X-ray findings. All ...
Chest X-ray showed a tumor mass of the right pulmonary hilum. Transbronchial biopsy was nondiagnostic. HRCT-scan showed a tumor mass in the right hilum, which raised the suspicion of a lung cancer. PET-CT scan revealed a high metabolic activity of the tumor mass and of a paratracheal ...
He had raised inflammatory markers with an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 75 mm/h, a C-reactive protein level of 188 mg/1 andawhite blood cell count ofll.3 X 10~9/l.His chestX-ray(fig. 1) showed a left hilar mass. The initial differential diagnosis included lymphoma, tuberculosis, ...
coli; hmv: Hypermucoviscous; MALDI-TOF: Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry; PFGE: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi. org/10.1186/s12941-...