ABSTRACT
La radiografía lateral forma parte esencial del estudio radiográfico del tórax, y el conocimiento anatómico es fundamental para poder detectar las variaciones que en ella producen las diferentes enfermedades. El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una revisión anatómica de esta proyección, así como de las principales variantes normales. Para ello, y con fines únicamente didácticos, se ha dividido el tórax en diferentes espacios que se analizarán de manera ordenada, haciendo especial hincapié en los detalles anatómicos que más pueden ayudar a localizar lesiones ya detectadas en la proyección posteroanterior, o a detectar lesiones que pueden pasar desapercibidas en esa proyección (AU)
Lateral chest views constitute an essential part of chest X-ray examinations, so it is fundamental to know the anatomy on these images and to be able to detect the variations manifested on these images in different diseases. The aim of this article is to review the normal anatomy and main normal variants seen on lateral chest views. For teaching purposes, we divide the thorax into different spaces and analyze each in an orderly way, especially emphasizing the anatomic details that are most helpful for locating lesions that have already been detected in the posteroanterior view or for detecting lesions that can be missed in the posteroanterior view (AU)
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Humans , Male , Female , Radiography, Thoracic/instrumentation , Radiography, Thoracic/methods , Radiography, Thoracic , Anatomy/trends , Pathology/trends , Radiography, Thoracic/classification , Radiography, Thoracic/standards , Radiography, Thoracic/trends , Lung/pathology , LungABSTRACT
La técnica de imagen tradicionalmente empleada para valorar a los pacientes con cirugía de funduplicatura y sospecha de complicación es el tránsito esofagogastroduodenal con fluoroscopia. En este artículo describimos una nueva técnica mediante tomografía computarizada multicorte, que puede ser una herramienta útil para estudiar las funduplicaturas con sospecha de complicación o fallo tardío (AU)
The traditional approach to the imaging evaluation of patients after gastric fundoplication is an upper gastrointestinal series obtained by fluoroscopy. In this article, we describe a new technique using multislice computed tomography that we think can be useful to evaluate patients with suspected complications or late failure after gastric fundoplication (AU)
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Humans , Male , Female , Digestive System Surgical Procedures/adverse effects , Digestive System Surgical Procedures/methods , Tomography, Emission-Computed/instrumentation , Tomography, Emission-Computed/methods , Tomography, Emission-Computed , Postoperative Complications/diagnosis , Postoperative Complications/prevention & control , Postoperative Complications , Multidetector Computed Tomography/methods , Multidetector Computed Tomography/instrumentation , Multidetector Computed Tomography/standards , Multidetector Computed TomographyABSTRACT
Lateral chest views constitute an essential part of chest X-ray examinations, so it is fundamental to know the anatomy on these images and to be able to detect the variations manifested on these images in different diseases. The aim of this article is to review the normal anatomy and main normal variants seen on lateral chest views. For teaching purposes, we divide the thorax into different spaces and analyze each in an orderly way, especially emphasizing the anatomic details that are most helpful for locating lesions that have already been detected in the posteroanterior view or for detecting lesions that can be missed in the posteroanterior view.
Subject(s)
Radiography, Thoracic , Thorax/anatomy & histology , Thorax/diagnostic imaging , Anatomic Variation , Humans , Radiography, Thoracic/methodsABSTRACT
The traditional approach to the imaging evaluation of patients after gastric fundoplication is an upper gastrointestinal series obtained by fluoroscopy. In this article, we describe a new technique using multislice computed tomography that we think can be useful to evaluate patients with suspected complications or late failure after gastric fundoplication.
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Fundoplication/adverse effects , Multidetector Computed Tomography , Postoperative Complications/diagnostic imaging , HumansABSTRACT
La miocarditis consiste en la inflamación del miocardio, producida la mayoría de las veces por una infección viral. La confirmación diagnóstica en la práctica clínica habitual es difícil porque la historia clínica y la exploración física, las alteraciones en el electrocardiograma, la determinación de las enzimas cardiacas y el ecocardiograma ofrecen escasa precisión diagnóstica, y no es infrecuente que se plantee el diagnóstico diferencial con el infarto agudo de miocardio. La resonancia magnética (RM) cardiaca se ha convertido en el método de imagen de elección para el diagnóstico de la miocarditis. En este trabajo se describen los hallazgos de imagen en la RM en el momento del diagnóstico y en el seguimiento de los pacientes con miocarditis, el diagnóstico diferencial con otros procesos agudos como el infarto de miocardio, y los factores pronósticos estudiados mediante RM (AU)
Myocarditis, inflammation of the myocardium, is usually due to viral infection. Diagnostic confirmation in ordinary clinical practice is difficult because the findings on the clinical history, physical examination, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests offer scant diagnostic accuracy, and the differential diagnosis is often done with acute myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has become the method of choice for the diagnosis of myocarditis. In this article, we describe the CMR findings at diagnosis and during the follow-up of patients with myocarditis, the differential diagnosis with other acute processes like myocardial infarction, and the prognostic factors studied with CMR (AU)
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Humans , Male , Female , Myocarditis , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/instrumentation , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Electrocardiography/methods , Electrocardiography , Myocardial Infarction , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/standards , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/trends , Virus Diseases/complications , Virus Diseases , Diagnosis, Differential , Myocarditis/etiology , Myocarditis/physiopathology , ImmunohistochemistryABSTRACT
Myocarditis, inflammation of the myocardium, is usually due to viral infection. Diagnostic confirmation in ordinary clinical practice is difficult because the findings on the clinical history, physical examination, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests offer scant diagnostic accuracy, and the differential diagnosis is often done with acute myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has become the method of choice for the diagnosis of myocarditis. In this article, we describe the CMR findings at diagnosis and during the follow-up of patients with myocarditis, the differential diagnosis with other acute processes like myocardial infarction, and the prognostic factors studied with CMR.
