Quantitative assessment of the association between erector spinae muscle and in-hospital mortality in elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Objective: Skeletal muscle size is considered a predictor of prognosis in patients with respiratory diseases including Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease. However, no research focused on its impact on prognosis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Thus, this study aimed to assess the association between erector spinae muscle (ESM) size and in-hospital mortality among patients with pulmonary TB.

Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report.

Background: Splenopancreatic fusion is a rare anomaly that is often associated with trisomy 13. Its diagnosis can be important in patients scheduled to undergo distal pancreatectomy or splenectomy, to avoid possible intraoperative or postoperative complications.

Case Presentation: An 82-year-old Japanese man was referred to our hospital for further evaluation and treatment for a solitary hepatocellular carcinoma based on liver cirrhosis.

Chest HRCT findings in acute transformation of adult T-cell lymphoma/leukemia.

Objectives: To assess chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings in patients with acute transformation of adult T cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATLL).

Methods: We retrospectively identified 72 consecutive patients at our institution with ATLL between October 2000 and March 2014. The cases included acute type (n = 20), lymphoma type (n = 21), smouldering type (n = 24) and chronic type (n = 7).

Comparison of high-resolution computed tomography findings between Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and Cytomegalovirus pneumonia.

Objective: To compare pulmonary high-resolution CT (HRCT) findings in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia to HRCT findings in patients with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonia.

Methods: We studied 124 patients (77 men, 47 women; age range, 20-89 years; mean age, 65.4 years) with P.

Sebaceous lymphadenoma demonstrated by CT and MRI.

Sebaceous differentiation in normal salivary gland tissue is known to occur, but primary sebaceous neoplasms of the salivary gland are extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, very few studies have described thin-section computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging results in patients with sebaceous lymphadenomas. We describe a 75-year-old man with a sebaceous lymphadenoma of the right salivary gland.

Salivary duct carcinoma of the extra-glandular segment of Stensen's duct: radiological findings and pathological correlation (2008: 10b).

Salivary duct carcinoma (SDC) of the extra-glandular segment of Stensen's duct is a very rare but aggressive neoplasm. Ultrasonography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging findings in a patient pathologically proven to have SDC of the extra-glandular segment of Stensen's duct are reported. When an early peak enhancement region in the mass with a well-enhanced dilated and thickened Stensen's duct wall is apparent on dynamic studies, a SDC of the extra-glandular segment of Stensen's duct should be strongly suspected.

Diagnosis by needle biopsy of tuberculoma that mimics lung cancer.

Two patients with subacute symptoms and signs compatible with lung cancer presented with focal opacities on chest radiographs. In both patients, tissue examinations showed typical histological changes associated with pulmonary tuberculosis. Antituberculosis therapy led to clinical and radiological resolution.

Clinical and pulmonary thin-section CT findings in acute Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia.

The aim of this study was to assess the clinical and pulmonary thin-section CT findings in patients with acute Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia. We retrospectively evaluated thin-section CT examinations performed between January 1991 and December 2007 from 962 patients with acute Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia. Seven hundred and sixty-four cases with concurrent infectious diseases were excluded.

Clinical/pathologic correlations in 553 patients with primary centrilobular findings on high-resolution CT scan of the thorax.

Background: Clinical/pathologic correlations in patients with high-resolution CT (HRCT) scan findings presenting with two patterns of centrilobular opacity remain unclear.

Methods: Chest HRCT scans in 553 patients with predominant centrilobular opacities or preferential centrilobular disease were retrospectively evaluated. In 141 patients who underwent biopsy, CT scan images were compared with actual specimens.

Pulmonary computed tomography findings of visceral larva migrans caused by Ascaris suum.

Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the computed tomography (CT) findings of pulmonary involvement in patients with visceral larva migrans caused by Ascaris suum.

Methods: Institutional review board approval was obtained, and informed consent was waived. Chest CT scans obtained between January 1994 and November 2005 in 32 patients infected with A.

Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia after bone marrow transplantation: association with human leukocyte antigens.

Unlabelled: This is the first study reporting the relationship between the development of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) in patients with bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The HLA B35 was significantly higher in patients with BOOP than in patients without BOOP after BMT (P = 0.0069).

Pulmonary CT findings in 320 carriers of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1.

Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate pulmonary computed tomographic (CT) findings in human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) carriers, who were characterized by means of polyclonal integration of proviral DNA.

Materials And Methods: Institutional review board approval was obtained, and informed consent was waived. Chest CT scans obtained between January 1996 and October 2004 in 320 (154 men, 166 women; age range, 31-86 years; mean, 64 years) patients with HTLV-1 were retrospectively evaluated by three chest radiologists.

Chlamydia pneumoniae pneumonia and Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: comparison of clinical findings and CT findings.

The objective of this study was to identify the clinical and pulmonary CT findings associated with Chlamydia pneumoniae pneumonia and to compare them with those of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia. The clinical features and CT scans of 40 patients with C. pneumoniae pneumonia and 42 patients with M.

Thoracic manifestation of myeloperoxidase-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (MPO-ANCA)-related disease. CT findings in 51 patients.

Objective: To assess the pulmonary CT findings of patients with serum evidence of the myeloperoxidase-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (MPO-ANCA).

Methods: The pulmonary CT scans of 62 patients with serum evidence of MPO-ANCA (51 with microscopic polyangiitis, 11 with Churg-Strauss syndrome) were retrospectively assessed with regard to parenchymal, pleural, and mediastinal abnormalities.

Results: On the CT scans, abnormal findings were seen in 51 of the patients (82%, n = 62).

Thoracic CT findings of adult T-cell leukemia or lymphoma.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess pulmonary CT findings in patients with adult T-cell leukemia or lymphoma.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed CT scans of the lung in 87 patients with adult T-cell leukemia or lymphoma who had undergone chest CT between January 1996 and March 2002 at two institutions. The CT scans were interpreted by two chest radiologists working in consensus.