TCT is highly sensitive in detecting thoracic injuries after blunt chest trauma and is superior to routine CXR in visualzing lung contusions, pneumothorax, and hemothorax. Early TCT influences therapeutic management in a significant number of patients. We therefore recommend TCT in the initial diagnostic work-up of patients with multiple injuries and with suspected chest trauma because early and exact diagnosis of all thoracic injuries along with sufficient therapeutic consequences may reduce complications and improve outcome of severely injured patients with blunt chest trauma.
Our results provide evidence that the presence of single lung carcinoma cells in lymph nodes is an independent indicator of the disseminatory capacity of an individual primary tumor. Immunohistochemical assessment of micrometastases in lymph nodes is recommended for current tumor staging in NSCLC, as it might lead to better stratification of patients for adjuvant therapy.
These data show that the degree of the initial inflammatory response corresponds with the development of posttraumatic organ failure. Besides anatomically and physiologically based trauma scores, these parameters might be used as indicators for the injury severity.
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