Computed Tomography for the Evaluation of Thoracic Masses in Children
- Susan B. Shurin, MD;
- John R. Haaga, MD;
- Robert E. Wood, MD;
- Frank P. Ittleman, MD
- From the Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies & Childrens Hospital (Drs Shurin and Wood); the Departments of Radiology (Dr Haaga) and Surgery (Dr Ittleman), University Hospitals of Cleveland; and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Drs Shurin, Haaga, and Wood), Cleveland. Dr Ittleman is now with the Department of Surgery, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington.
Abstract
Large chest masses in two young children were evaluated using thoracic computed tomography (CT). Air was identified within the mass four days before it was visible on the plain roentgenograms in one patient. Rapid injection of contrast material with CT scanning demonstrated that the pulmonary blood flow passed through the mass, instead of being displaced by it, in the other child. Thus, both lesions were identified as originating in the pulmonary parenchyma rather than in the mediastinum.
(JAMA 1981;246:65-67)
Footnotes
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