Publications by authors named "Daniela Hochhegger"
Purpose To perform a meta-analysis of the diagnostic performance of MRI for the detection of pulmonary nodules, with use of CT as the reference standard. Materials and Methods PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and other databases were systematically searched for studies published from January 2000 to March 2023 evaluating the performance of MRI for diagnosis of lung nodules measuring 4 mm or larger, with CT as reference. Studies including micronodules, nodules without size stratification, or those from which data for contingency tables could not be extracted were excluded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to determine the accuracy of multidetector computed tomography in the evaluation of histologically confirmed pulmonary hamartomas (PHs), with a special focus on fat detection.
Materials And Methods: Data from 55 patients who had received a histologically confirmed diagnosis of PH and had undergone 64-slice thoracic MDCT were retrospectively evaluated.
Results: PHs manifested predominantly as peripheral pulmonary nodules with lobulated margins.
Objective: To assess the routine use of barium swallow study in patients with chronic cough.
Methods: Between October of 2011 and March of 2012, 95 consecutive patients submitted to chest X-ray due to chronic cough (duration > 8 weeks) were included in the study. For study purposes, additional images were obtained immediately after the oral administration of 5 mL of a 5% barium sulfate suspension.