PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nakanishi, Kozo
AU  - Goto, Hidenori
AU  - Ito, Tomokazu
AU  - Nagata, Yasuhito
AU  - Hayashi, Shinichi
AU  - Ishihara, Toshihiro
TI  - Novel imaging detailing the origins of a pneumothorax
AID  - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209007
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - Thorax
PG  - 85--87
VI  - 73
IP  - 1
4099  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/73/1/85.short
4100  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/73/1/85.full
SO  - Thorax2018 Jan 01; 73
AB  - This is a prospective clinical study aimed at introducing a method to visualise the location of an air leak and to identify the bulla responsible on three-dimensional (3-D) cine CT. In 10 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax, dynamic 320-detector row CT was performed with injection of 0.9% saline into the affected pleural cavity via a preplaced chest tube. In eight cases, 3-D cine CT thoracography revealed the location of the air leak and the bulla responsible (7 cases: air stream sign; 1 case: repeated collapse and expansion of a bulla with the patient's breathing).