Role of MDCT in Diagnosis of Different Calcified Chest Lesions
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Role of MDCT in Diagnosis of Different Calcified Chest Lesions, YOUSSRIAH Y. SABRI, TAKEYA TAYMOUR, HEBAALLAH A. MOUSSA and REHAM M.A. REFAIE
Abstract
Introduction: Intrathoracic calcifications occur in a wide variety of disorders. Although they are usually harmless sequel of a remote process, calcifications provide important infor-mation for establishing the diagnosis and evaluating the progression of a known disease. MDCT plays an important role diagnosis of different calcified chest lesions.
Patients and Methods: This study involved 50 patients; 28 males and 22 females, showing intrathorathic calcification, age ranging from 12 to 88 years. All patients were cases with different chest complaints and all of them underwent assess-ment of their using 16 channels MDCT; NECT in 20 cases, CECT followed by NECT in 5 and HRCT in 7 patients.
Results: The anatomical sites of the calcification were as follows: Lung in 11 cases, lung and mediatinum in 6, pleura in 8, lung and pleura in one and chest wall in 4.
Types of calcified lung lesions were cystic lesions in 5 cases, mass lesions in 8 fibrosis in 2 and diffuse in only one case.
Conclusion: MDCT is currently the imaging of choice in diagnosis of different calcified chest lesions.