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🫁 New in #JTI: An unusual CT appearance of Hodgkin lymphoma!
🩻 Namihira et al describe an anterior mediastinal mass with abundant intratumoral vessels.
🩸CT-guided biopsy was complicated by hemothorax.
💡Assess tumor vascularity before biopsy.
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🫁 CT predictors of malignancy in intrathoracic mesenchymal tumors!
In 81 histologically confirmed tumors, Singh et al found:
🔺Necrosis: OR 123.2 🔺Irregular/spiculated margins: OR 3.52
🔺Increasing size: OR 1.32 per cm 🔺Calcification favored benign pathology
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🫁 Noncontrast X-ray pulsatility index (XPI) shows promise for pulmonary perfusion imaging in #CTEPH
🩻 In 18 lungs, showed substantial agreement with pulmonary angiography (Dice 0.70).
💨 8-sec breath-hold
💉 No IV contrast
📉 Lower radiation than DSA
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🫁 Tomorrow, Oct 3rd, tune into the FREE STR webinar, Navigating a Career in Academic Radiology!
🗣️ STR President Brett Elicker + #JTI Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Kanne; JTI Editorial Board @LaurenGroner@BrixeyAnu@sanjeevbhalla & Chris Walker; and more!
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🫁 “Air-cleft sign” in pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis, described by Diaz et al!
🔍 Seen in 6/7 patients
🩻 Smooth, crescentic, or oblong air clefts in larger solid nodules
🔬 Pathology: entrapped normal respiratory epithelium, not cavitation
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🫁 New in JTI: Real-world performance of AI for #LungCancer (LC) detection at screening!
🤖 In 129 patients, 92% of LCs were visible on vessel-suppressed images, with CADe sensitivity of 72%.
👀 Detection varied by nodule type: Solid: 80%; Part-solid: 75%; GGO: 38%; Cystic: 13%
👋 Excited to be the new Social Media Editor for Journal of Thoracic Imaging!
I’m looking forward to sharing the latest from #JTI + connecting with the thoracic imaging, medicine, oncology, and surgery communities here.
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🫁 New pictorial essay by Kim et al in #JTI reviews 🔑 imaging features of thoracic IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), a chronic, immune-mediated fibroinflammantory disorder with multiorgan involvement—a true chameleon���
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We’re excited to welcome @LaurenGroner as the new Social Media Editor for Journal of Thoracic Imaging 🫁
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