Thoracic Imaging, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

1st Edition, Volume 45-2 - June 3, 2024
Editor: Jane P. Ko
Language: English
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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 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.

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

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