Purpose: Response of solid malignancies to therapy is usually determined by serial
measurements of tumor size. The purpose of our study was to assess the consistency of …

Primary sarcomas of the thorax are rare. The diagnosis is established only after sarcomalike
primary lung malignancies and metastatic disease have been excluded. Primary sarcomas …

Purpose To review recent advances in pathology and computed tomography (CT) of lung
adenocarcinoma and bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC). Methods A pathology/CT review …

Purpose: To retrospectively determine the prevalence and natural history of incidental
pulmonary emboli in oncology patients, the number of such cases reported at initial thoracic …

PURPOSE: To study factors that may influence pneumothorax and chest tube placement rate,
especially needle dwell time and pleural puncture angle. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In …

OBJECTIVE. A potential source of false-positive FDG PET interpretations in oncologic imaging
is FDG uptake in brown fat. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence, …

Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) has important utility and
limitations in the initial staging of esophageal cancer, evaluation of response to neoadjuvant …

BACKGROUND: Integrated computed tomography-positron emission tomography imaging
with coregistration of anatomic and functional imaging data may improve the accuracy of …

Thymoma is a rare mediastinal neoplasm but is the most common primary neoplasm of the
anterior mediastinum. There have been only a few published reports assessing this disease. …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy, safety, and
pharmacokinetics of trastuzumab plus cisplatin and gemcitabine in patients with Her2-overexpressing …