Conclusion The new BTS guidelines will significantly reduce both the number of patients requiring radiological follow up for indeterminate nodules and also the total number of scans required overall.Even assuming worst case scenario in terms of clinical risk factors there is very little difference ...
Follow-up CT scans for indeterminate pulmonary nodules generally are performed at 3 to 12 months after the initial CT scan to assess for interval growth depending on the size and appearance of the nodule and the presence of risk factors for malignancy, such as a patient history of tobacco use...
reviewed 1000 CT pulmonary angiogram reports and found that appropriate follow up of incidental pulmonary nodules increased from 0 to 29%, when the reporting radiologist provided an overt suggestion in the conclusion of the report, compared with the nodule only being mentioned in the body of the ...
Thankfully, early diagnosis of this pathology and proper medical follow-up allow to increase the patients’ survival rate. Namely, annual screening of risk groups with low-dose chest computed tomography (LDCT) allows to reduce lung cancer mortality by 20%2. During screening, radiologists search ...
reviewed 1000 CT pulmonary angiogram reports and found that appropriate follow up of incidental pul- monary nodules increased from 0 to 29%, when the reporting radiologist provided an overt suggestion in the conclusion of the report, compared with the nodule only being mentioned in the body of ...
T1 Abstract P168 Table 1 Lung nodule follow-up when using the 3 different surveillance methods No. (%) of patients requiring CT follow-up Total no. CT scans performed in all patients requiring follow-up Fleischner 97 (97%) 214 BTS with Brock- Full with Spiculation 75 (75%) 132 BTS ...
S75A Clinical Model to Estimate the Probability of Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy in a Population of Oncology Follow-up PatientsIntroduction The new BTS Pulmonary Nodule Guidelines 2015 recommend the use of composite prediction models to assess the pre-test probability of malignancy in patients presenting ...
Lung nodules or effusions developing in the context of an extrapulmonary neoplasm can either be synchronous (discovered at the same time as the primary tumor) or metachronous (discovered at some period after the initial solid tumor, either incidentally in the course of follow up of a prior malign...
saving 8 future scans.All patients with a CT follow up period of between 3 months and 1 year (n = 44) had static linear measurements and volumetry was not retrospectively performed on these.Total discharges were 51 (see table), with a saving of 61 scans compared to historical protocol. Di...
The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test revealed that the patient data for nodule size, nodule depth, needle insertion depth, and operator experience did not follow a normal distribution, whereas the patient data for age conformed to a normal distribution. The median nodule size was 0.91 cm (IQR: 0.70–1.2...