Radiological and citological relation in pulmonary and mediastinal injuries

Abstract

A retrospective study was carried out among total of patients diagnosed with an unique pulmonary and/or mediastinic injuries in a form of node or mass. The diagnosis was established by a lateral and postero-anterior thoracic radiography. In this study were also used a helicoidal computed tomography and fine needle aspiration biopsy as well, to demonstrate the citologic and radiologic correspondence. Most affected groups were those, whose ages fluctuated from 46 to 60 and from 61 to 75 years old. The thoracic pain was the basic symptom, because of what they were put under an imageneologic test. Pulmonary lesions predominated during mediastinal taking. Citological results showed a predominance of primary pulmonary malignants. Among these malignant lesions were found the following main groups: adenocarcinoma, epidermoid carcinoma, large-cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma in a decreasing sequence. When evaluating morphological characteristics of tumors, the axial computed tomography turned out to be superior to conventional radiology. With the obtained results was possible to propose a predicting model of the ethiological diagnosis based on imageneologic findings.

Keywords

• pulmón/lesiones
• mediastino/lesiones
• biopsia con aguja fina
• tomografia computarizada por rayos x