Radiological and citological relation in pulmonary and mediastinal injuries

Authors

  • Juan Héctor Castro Duménigo Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Manuel Floro Loy Vera Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Mayra Alejandro Gaspar Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

lung/injuries, mediastinum/injuries, biopsy fine-needle, tomography X-ray computed

Abstract

A retrospective study was carried out among total of patients diagnosed with an unique pulmonary and/or mediastinic injuries in a form of node or mass. The diagnosis was established by a lateral and postero-anterior thoracic radiography. In this study were also used a helicoidal computed tomography and fine needle aspiration biopsy as well, to demonstrate the citologic and radiologic correspondence. Most affected groups were those, whose ages fluctuated from 46 to 60 and from 61 to 75 years old. The thoracic pain was the basic symptom, because of what they were put under an imageneologic test. Pulmonary lesions predominated during mediastinal taking. Citological results showed a predominance of primary pulmonary malignants. Among these malignant lesions were found the following main groups: adenocarcinoma, epidermoid carcinoma, large-cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma in a decreasing sequence. When evaluating morphological characteristics of tumors, the axial computed tomography turned out to be superior to conventional radiology. With the obtained results was possible to propose a predicting model of the ethiological diagnosis based on imageneologic findings.

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Author Biographies

Juan Héctor Castro Duménigo, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Medicina General Intergral. Especialista de I y II Grados en Imagenología. Profesor Instructor del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Manuel Floro Loy Vera, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Imagenología

Mayra Alejandro Gaspar, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Imagenología

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Castro Duménigo JH, Loy Vera MF, Alejandro Gaspar M. Radiological and citological relation in pulmonary and mediastinal injuries. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2007 Sep. 3 [cited 2025 Jun. 28];1(2):23-30. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/346

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2007): September-December

Section

Original Articles

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