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Correlation Between Ct , Mri Of The Chest And Medical Thoracoscopic Findings In Primary Pleural Tumors, Mohamed Tarik Abd Al-Fattah Al-Jammal, Mohamed Ahmed Haroun, Fawzy Mohamed Omar, Mahmoud Mohamed Aboumandour Fouda
Correlation Between Ct , Mri Of The Chest And Medical Thoracoscopic Findings In Primary Pleural Tumors, Mohamed Tarik Abd Al-Fattah Al-Jammal, Mohamed Ahmed Haroun, Fawzy Mohamed Omar, Mahmoud Mohamed Aboumandour Fouda
Al-Azhar International Medical Journal
Objective: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) routine diagnostic procedures often include computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Histological confirmation by pleural biopsy is required for the MPM diagnosis to be finalized.
Aim of our study: to compare among findings of chest CT, MRI and medical thoracoscopy (MT) for MPM identification.
Patients and methods: Fifty patients (30 Males and 20 females) with definitive MPM diagnosis after (MT) biopsy, underwent chest CT and MRI chest.
Results: There was statistically significant parameters for MRI versus CT for pleural thickening, it was 64% versus 44% (p= 0.044). Post contrast enhancement in MRI was …