A Comparative Evaluation of Mediastinal Nodal SUVmax and Derived Ratios from F-FDG PET/CT Imaging to Predict Nodal Metastases in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

F-FDG positron emission tomography with computed tomography (PET/CT) is a standard imaging modality for the nodal staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). To improve the accuracy of pre-operative staging, we compare the staging accuracy of mediastinal lymph node (LN) standard uptake values (SUV) with four derived SUV ratios based on the SUV values of primary tumours (TR), the mediastinal blood pool (MR), liver (LR), and nodal size (SR). In 2015-2017, 53 patients (29 women and 24 men, mean age 67.

COVID-19 associated phrenic nerve mononeuritis: a case series.

This study characterised the hemidiaphragm elevation on 3-month interval chest X-rays (CXRs) of patients post COVID-19 pneumonia. 467 CXRs were screened; 19 (4.1%) had an elevated hemidiaphragm.

Acute pulmonary thromboembolism in emergency room: gray-scale versus color doppler ultrasound evaluation.

Background: Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) remains under-diagnosed fatal disease at emergency units suggesting the need for alternative, easy, and noninvasive bedside diagnostic approaches.

Objectives: To determine the diagnostic role of gray-scale and color Doppler transthoracic ultrasonography (TUS) in patients with PTE.

Patients And Methods: Blinded to 64 multi-detectors CT pulmonary angiography (MDCTPA) examination as a gold standard, 60 patients with clinically suspected PTE underwent gray-scale and then color Doppler TUS examination.