Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2007
Abstract
The authors retrospectively analyze cohort of 137 patients presenting with pleural effusion of unknown etiology to assess the applicability of contrast-enhanced CT imaging for detection of malignant etiology. In cases of pleural effusion of unknown etiology the contrast-enhanced CT is a method which has the capacity to help significantly in discrimination of differential diagnoses.
We assume that we were able to demonstrate the usefulness of contrast-enhanced CT in diagnostic algorithm when dealing with pleural effusion of unknown etiology.