Imaging and clinical manifestations of hematogenous dissemination in melioidosis.

Background: Although there is a high incidence of hematogenous infections in melioidosis, a tropical infectious disease, there are few systematic analyses of hematogenous melioidosis in imaging articles. A comprehensive clinical and imaging evaluation of hematogenous melioidosis be conducted in order to achieve early diagnosis of the disease.

Materials And Methods: We conducted an analysis of 111 cases of melioidosis diagnosed by bacteriological culture between August 2001 and September 2022.

Effect of 5-Line Signs in the Prediction of Staging, Progression, and Prognosis of Peripheral Lung Carcinoma: Preliminary Observation Report.

Background: The single line of the normal interlobar fissure shown on a thin section image can be reconstructed as a 5-line sign on axial maximal intensity projection. The line between the lung nodule and the pleura is called the pleural tail sign on thin image. On the axial maximal intensity projection, it can also be reconstructed as the 5-line sign or fewer than 5 lines.

Neuromelioidosis: a series of seven cases in Hainan province, China.

Melioidosis, which is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, is predominately a disease of tropical climates and is especially widespread in south-east Asia and northern Australia. Melioidosis affecting the central nervous system has a low incidence but a high mortality. We present seven cases of neuromelioidosis and analyze the disease characteristics and imaging features.

Comparison of the rebuilding effects of different computed tomography scanners and reconstructive settings for the five-line sign in normal interlobular fissures.

Background: Based on the images generated from two multi-slice computed tomography (CT) scanners, we intended to compare the five-line sign of normal interlobular fissures produced on axial or oblique maximum intensity projection (MIP) reconstructions using different algorithms.

Methods: Two groups of 50 subjects underwent either 16-slice or 256-slice spiral unenhanced chest CT. None of them in either group displayed any abnormality.

Conditions and mechanism for the appearance of interlobar fissures as 5-line signs in axial maximum intensity projection images.

Purpose: To assess the conditions and mechanism for the 5-line sign of normal interlobar fissures revealed on axial maximum intensity projection (MIP).

Subjects And Methods: Fifty subjects (32 males and 18 females aged 16 to 76 years) whose conditions were diagnosed as normal on computed tomography (CT) of the chest were presented. Images for the fissures with a slice thickness of 1.

Assessment of hepatic functional reserve by cirrhosis grading and liver volume measurement using CT.

Aim: To explore a method for quantitative assessment of hepatic functional reserve by combining computed tomography (CT) volumetry with CT grading of liver cirrhosis before liver resection in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Methods: CT images of 55 patients undergoing liver resection were studied prospectively. The degree of liver cirrhosis was referred as "CT grade" and the percentage of remnant liver volume (PRLV) [PRLV = predicted RLV/predicted total liver volume (PTLV) multiply 100%; PTLV (mL) = 121.