
Thoracic Imaging, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 45-2 - June 3, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Jane P. Ko
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 3 2 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 3 2 5 - 6
In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editor Dr. Jane P. Ko brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Thoracic Imaging. Top experts discuss CT signs in the… Read more

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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editor Dr. Jane P. Ko brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Thoracic Imaging. Top experts discuss CT signs in the lungs; pericardial recesses on CT: implications for the pulmonologist; imaging of solid pulmonary nodules; subsolid nodules: significance and current understanding; ICU imaging pearls and pitfalls; and more.
- Contains 20 relevant, practice-oriented topics including imaging the patient with COVID-19: acute to long COVID; CTEPH: clinical and imaging evaluation; update on interstitial pneumonias; ILAs: current understanding; imaging of lung transplantation; imaging of the large airways; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on thoracic imaging, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Chest Medicine/pulmonology
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Chest Intensive Care Unit Imaging: Pearls and Pitfalls
- Key points
- Introduction
- Chest radiography
- Respiratory support and intervention
- Chest tubes and pleural catheters
- Cardiovascular monitoring and surgical devices
- Gastrointestinal devices
- Foreign bodies
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Pericardial Recesses on Computed Tomography: Implications for the Pulmonologist
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy of the pericardial recess
- Clinical significance of pericardial recess
- Pericardial recess interventions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Imaging of Solid Pulmonary Nodules
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Subsolid Nodules: Significance and Current Understanding
- Key points
- Introduction
- Significance of subsolid nodules
- Imaging characterization of subsolid nodules
- Current understanding of subsolid nodule management
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Interpreting Lung Cancer Screening CTs: Practical Approach to Lung Cancer Screening and Application of Lung-RADS
- Key points
- Introduction
- Eligibility criteria
- 2022 Lung-RADS updates
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Imaging in Lung Cancer Staging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Tumor descriptor
- Nodal descriptor
- Metastasis descriptor
- Special considerations for multiple pulmonary sites
- Resectability
- Summary
- Lung Needle Biopsy and Lung Ablation: Indications, Patient Management, and Postprocedure Imaging Findings
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Drug-induced Lung Disease in the Oncology Patient: From Cytotoxic Agents to Immunotherapy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Chemotherapy
- Targeted therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer: Imaging Appearances and Pitfalls
- Key points
- Introduction
- Radiation therapy indications and techniques
- Imaging surveillance after radiation therapy
- Radiation injury and imaging manifestations
- Tumor recurrence
- Infection
- Radiation-induced cancer
- Recall pneumonitis
- Radiation therapy thrombosis
- Osteoradionecrosis and rib fracture
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Imaging of the Spectrum of Acute Lung Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- Acute lung injury is not a disease
- Acute fibrinous organizing pneumonia
- Exudation in acute lung injury
- Organization in acute lung injury
- Lung repair and fibrosis
- Association between acute lung injury, usual interstitial pneumonia, and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia
- Summary
- Pulmonary Infection
- Key points
- Introduction
- Bacterial pneumonia
- Viral pneumonia
- Tuberculous and nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Fungal pneumonia
- Multiorganism infection
- Nonimaging diagnosis
- Summary
- The Short and Long of COVID-19: A Review of Acute and Chronic Radiologic Pulmonary Manifestations of SARS-2-CoV and Their Clinical Significance
- Key points
- Introduction
- Histopathological appearance
- Acute COVID-19 pneumonia
- Long term sequela of COVID-19 pneumonia
- Airway manifestations
- Vascular manifestations in post-coronavirus disease syndrome
- CT a prediction tool in post covid-19 syndrome
- Follow-up imaging post covid-19 pneumonia
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: Clinical and Imaging Evaluation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical evaluation
- Chest radiograph
- Two-dimensional echocardiography
- V/Q scintigraphy
- Single-energy computed tomography
- Dual-energy (spectral) computed tomographic angiography
- Cardiac magnetic resonance
- Invasive pulmonary angiography
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Update on Interstitial Pneumonias
- Key points
- Introduction
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Progressive pulmonary fibrosis
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Connective tissue-associated interstitial lung disease
- Multidisciplinary discussion and second opinion interpretations
- Structured reporting and interstitial lung disease reporting and data system
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Interstitial Lung Abnormalities: Current Understanding
- Key points
- Introduction
- What are interstitial lung abnormalities?
- Risk stratification by interstitial lung abnormality imaging features
- Clinical relevance of interstitial lung abnormalities
- Clinical symptom and lung function
- Mortality
- Lang cancer risk and interstitial lung abnormalities
- Cancer therapy and interstitial lung abnormalities
- Pathologic correlation of interstitial lung abnormalities
- Clinical management
- Spectrum of fibrosing interstitial lung diseases from interstitial lung abnormalities to pulmonary fibrosis
- Future perspective
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Imaging of Lung Transplantation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding sources
- Smoking-Related Interstitial Lung Disease and Emphysema
- Key points
- Introduction
- Computed tomography technique
- Emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Respiratory bronchiolitis and respiratory bronchiolitis–interstitial lung disease
- Smoking-related interstitial fibrosis
- Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema
- Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis
- Smoking as a risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung abnormality
- Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- E-cigarette or vaping-related lung injury
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Imaging of Small Airways Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Normal anatomy
- Bronchioles
- Imaging of small airways disease
- Direct and indirect signs of small airways disease
- Cellular bronchiolitis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Imaging of Large Airway Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomical variants
- Congenital large airway abnormalities
- Acquired large airways abnormalities
- Inflammatory/Infiltrative causes of large airways disorders
- Infectious causes of large airways disorders
- Tumors of the large airways
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Chest Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Advances and Clinical Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 45-2
- Published: June 3, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443183249
- eBook ISBN: 9780443183256
JK
Jane P. Ko
Affiliations and expertise
NYU Langone Medical Center,Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine,