Tuberculous Empyema

CT Scans Correlate With Histopathological Findings

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 20th, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer -- Researchers have outlined criteria for the interpretation of computed tomography (CT) scans in patients with chronic tuberculous empyema.

H.Y. Kim and colleagues in South Korea correlated scans of the lining of the lung and extrapleural space with tissue samples obtained from decortication surgery. They compared chest scans from 13 men with a mean age of 42 who had chronic tuberculous empyema with findings from tissue samples ("Parietal pleura and extrapleural space in chronic tuberculous empyema: CT-pathologic correlation," Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 2001;25(1):9-15).

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