Radiologic clinics of North America
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Based mainly on the practice and experience in China, the radiology of aortoarteritis, including plain film and angiographic manifestations and its correlation to clinical syndromes, is reviewed in this article. The preliminary results of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in the management of renovascular hypertension due to aortoarteritis are described briefly and discussed.
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Radiol. Clin. North Am. · Sep 1984
ReviewSymposium on Nonpulmonary Aspects in Chest Radiology. The pulmonary ligament.
The pulmonary ligament forms an important attachment of the lower lobe to the mediastinum and therefore influences the ultimate configuration of pneumothorax, lower-lobe atelectasis, and mediastinal pleural effusions. Since the ligament consists of a double pleural sheath, under certain circumstances fluid, air, and so on can collect within it, producing a lesion of triangular configuration. The latter must be differentiated from an air cyst or atelectasis.
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This article provides background information about the solitary pulmonary nodule in terms of statistics, conventional radiology, and recent attempts to apply CT to distinguishing benign from malignant nodules. A proposed scheme for analysis of the nodule is offered.