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1984297

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-1-24
pubmed:abstractText
The authors undertook a study to determine the ability to detect mass or adenopathy in the "inferior hilar window," a normally avascular region inferior to the shadow of the right pulmonary artery and vein and anterior to the descending left pulmonary artery on lateral chest radiographs. Fifty patients with normal results of thoracic computed tomography (CT) and 25 with unilateral or bilateral hilar masses or adenopathy (defined as opacity greater than 10 mm in diameter) were selected retrospectively. Patients with concomitant pulmonary masses or consolidation at CT that might be confused with or obscure an inferior hilar mass or adenopathy were excluded from study. The 75 corresponding lateral chest radiographs were then evaluated blindly. Forty-seven of the 50 normal cases were correctly interpreted (specificity = 94%). The anterior walls of the right and left lower lobe bronchi were seen in 36% and 84% of normal cases, respectively; the average thickness was 2 mm. Of the 25 patients with inferior hilar masses, 22 were recognized as having abnormalities (sensitivity = 88%); two of the three patients with false-negative results had right hilar masses. Overall accuracy was 92%. For only eight (32%) of the 25 patients was the laterality of abnormality correctly diagnosed. Evaluation of the inferior hilar window on lateral chest radiographs is accurate in assessing the presence or absence of inferior hilar mass or adenopathy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0033-8419
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
178
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
163-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Inferior hilar window.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Radiology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco 94143-0628.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study