Sarcoidosis occurs most often in the lungs and lymph nodes. But it can occur in almost any organ ... reduce the amount of air the lungs can hold and cause lung stiffness. Chest X-ray. This imaging ...

In general, follow-up consisted of chest x-ray ... and retrocaval nodes. Para-aortic nodal packets included nodes to the left of the aorta, preaortic, and retroaortic. All lumbar vessels were ligated ...

amsterdamumc.nl Background Chest CT displays chest pathology better than chest X-ray (CXR). We evaluated the effects on health outcomes of replacing CXR by ultra-low-dose chest-CT (ULDCT) in the ...

ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with comprehensive review and analyses of the relevant literature for each recommendation, following the guideline development process as outlined in the ASCO ...

In patients without distant metastasis, the presence of mediastinal lymph nodes involvement generally precludes curative resection in most cases. [33] Thus, EUS-FNA provides accurate information ...

1Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China. 2Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 3Shanghai Clinical ...

Background: Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is an established method for sampling mediastinal lymph nodes to aid in diagnosing lymphadenopathy and in staging lung cancers. Real-time ...

OBJECTIVE: Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally invasive diagnostic test with a high diagnostic yield for suspicious central pulmonary lesions ...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the contribution of chest CTA findings to identifying alternative diagnoses to PTE that would explain the clinical picture of the patient and that ...

China § Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ... Finding a simple and effective strategy to eliminate tumor metastatic lymph nodes is highly desired ...