Diagnostiv value of pleuro-mediastinal lines and stripes for the radiologic analysis of the mediastinum (part I)
Neufang, K.F.; Beyer, D.
Rontgen-Blatter; Zeitschrift für Rontgen-Technik und Medizinisch-Wissenschaftliche Photographie 33(6): 257-266
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8592 PMID: 7384696 Document Number: 160918
Conventional x-ray examination of the chest (standard biplane radiograms, spot films, oesophagogram and tomogram) as a non-invasive method is of greatest value in the morphologic diagnosis of mediastinal disease. An important role plays the analysis of the pleuromediastinal lines and stripes which represent the interfaces of mediastinal structures and air containing lung tissue. A bried and systematic survey of their normal and pathologic roentgen anatomy is given and some characteristic examples are demonstrated.