(1) Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Währingergürtel 18-22, 1090 Vienna, Austria (2) Department of Emergency Radiology, Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy (3) Academic…

Malignant Nonmalignant Primary endoluminal carcinoma Lymphadenopathy  Bronchogenic  Sarcoidosis  Adenoid cystic  Infectious (i.e., tuberculosis)  Mucoepidermoid Vascular  Carcinoid  Sling Metastatic carcinoma to the airway Cartilage  Bronchogenic  Relapsing polychondritis  Renal cell Granulation tissue…

Acute clinical-histopathologic patterns Typical drugs Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD/ARDS) Bleomycin, busulfan, cyclophosphamide, mitomycin, amiodarone Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) Anticoagulants, amphotericin B, cytarabine (ara-C), penicillamine, cyclophosphamide Pulmonary edema (PE) Blood transfusions,…

Fig. 1 CT venography scans show the presence of intraluminal filling defects in the inferior vena cava (circle in a), the left common iliac vein (circle in b) and the…

Fig. 1 Thoracic aortic aneurysm in a 59-year-old man. Contrast-enhanced coronal MIP image (a) and sagittal MPR image (b) show a true aneurysm, with fusiform dilatation of the descending aorta…

Fig. 1 Osteoporotic thoracic spine fractures in an 86-year-old female. Unenhanced CT in (a) axial and (b) sagittal plane In a study including 155,031 women in the United States, aged…

Fig. 1 Theories of blunt traumatic aortic injuries (From ‘Blunt Aortic Injury’ Neschis DG et al. (2008) NEJM 359:1708–1716. Copyright © (2008) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission of the…

In principle, any mechanism with kinetic energy to the thoracic cage may cause blunt cardiac trauma Typical examples: Motor-vehicle accident (>20 mph) with compression by the steering wheel Deceleration trauma…

(3) Department of Radiology, Ege University Hospital, Izmir, Turkey   1.1 Introduction Pleural diseases are common and represent a significant contribution to the workload of emergency department. Patients with pleural…