Pleura

Reuß, Joachim

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-06044-5_3

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“…Patients were investigated in a sitting position (dorsal) and half‐sitting position (ventral). Parietal pleura was identified by observing the mobile B‐lines and pleural sliding within the context of respiratory excursions or by the separation of the surfaces of the parietal pleura and visceral pleura by the pleural effusion 9–11 . The perfusion patterns of the lesions were continuously examined by several short examinations at 30‐second intervals up to 3 min.…”

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Contrast‐enhanced ultrasound is helpful for differentiating benign from malignant parietal pleural lesions

Findeisen

Görg

Hartbrich

et al. 2021

J of Clinical Ultrasound

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Introduction: To describe the value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) for the differentiation of malignant from benign parietal pleural lesions (PPLs).Materials and Methods: From November 2005 to June 2019, 63 patients with histologically/cytologically confirmed PPLs were investigated by CEUS. On CEUS, the extent of enhancement (EE; marked or reduced/absent) and the homogeneity of enhancement (HE; homogeneous or inhomogeneous) were analyzed retrospectively.Results: In total, 24/63 lesions were benign, and 39/63 lesions were malignant. On CEUS, 11/24 benign and 36/39 malignant lesions showed a marked enhancement.A marked enhancement was significantly more frequently associated with malignancy compared with benign lesions (p < 0.001). In five cases, due to the absence of enhancement, it was not possible to determine the HE. In the remaining cases, 9/20 benign and 19/38 malignant lesions showed an inhomogeneous enhancement (p = 0.79). Conclusion:On CEUS, marked enhancement was significantly more frequently associated with malignant compared with benign lesions. However, some benign lesions, such as chronic inflammatory processes, may also show a marked enhancement.Therefore, the interpretation of perfusion patterns in these lesions must always take into account the clinical background of the patient.

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“…Ultrasound offers good resolution for delineating the pleural anatomy 7 . Approximately 70% of pleura can be visualized in an ultrasound examination, 8 whereas the visualization of the remaining parts of the pleura in ultrasound is not possible due to coverage by air and bony structures of the thorax 8,9 …”

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confidence: 99%