Separation between the chest wall and subpleural lung lesions: a two-step method to preoperatively exclude invasion or focal pleural adhesion by multidetector computed tomography

ConclusionsOur two-step method is especially useful for excluding the parietal pleural involvement of peripheral pulmonary lesions. Even when the separation between the chest wall and subpleural lung lesions was limited, the change in position was useful for observing the separation and excluding parietal pleural involvement. This novel two-step method also has the advantage of being simple, cost-effective, and universally available.

Source: European Journal of Radiology - January 26, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: research