Technical note: CT scout views of the cervical spine in severely head-injured patients.

The objective of this study was the validation of a CT multiprojection scout view method for the evaluation of cervical spine integrity in severely head-injured patients. Following brain CT, 130 consecutive patients underwent anteroposterior, laterolateral, and 45 degrees right and left oblique scout views of the cervical spine. The method allowed direct and prompt detection of traumatic lesions of the cervical spine in ten cases without moving the patients from the scanner table.

[Computerized tomography in a case of malignant mesothelioma with atypical clinical manifestations].

A case of pleural mesothelioma spread by its contiguity with the left retrocavitary region causing pain in the homolateral half of the abdomen is described in a subject who had received a rib injury several months earlier. Instrumental examinations revealed pleural lesions with effusion and a left paravertebral mass.

[The value of venous digital angiography in the postoperative follow-up of thromboendarterectomy and aorto-iliac-femoral prosthetic replacement].

Personal experience of 21 patients controlled by venous digital angiography following thrombendarterectomy and aorto-iliac-femoral prosthetic substitution is reported. The technique can be usefully employed because it is not too invasive and gives excellent results, peripheral venous injection usually being sufficient to document vasal recanalisation and prosthetic morphology. Venous digital angiography is therefore the examination of choice in the follow-up of patients submitted to aortofemoral revascularisation operations, a field in which traditional angiography has been little utilised owing to the problems of arterial approach.