RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Novel imaging detailing the origins of a pneumothorax
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 85
OP 87
DO 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209007
VO 73
IS 1
A1 Nakanishi, Kozo
A1 Goto, Hidenori
A1 Ito, Tomokazu
A1 Nagata, Yasuhito
A1 Hayashi, Shinichi
A1 Ishihara, Toshihiro
YR 2018
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/73/1/85.abstract
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).