Large diaphragmatic defect as the cause of hydrothorax in a cirrhotic patient: demonstration with peritoneal scintigraphy and magnetic resonance imaging
| Autor: | Mohsen Guezguez, Nadia Arifa, Salem Elajmi, Monia Karmani, S. Ajmi, Habib Hassine, H. Essabbah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Liver Cirrhosis
Male medicine.medical_specialty Cirrhosis medicine.medical_treatment Diaphragm Hydrothorax Biomedical Engineering Biophysics Thoracentesis Scintigraphy Diaphragmatic defect medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radionuclide Imaging medicine.diagnostic_test Respiratory distress business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging Middle Aged medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Transudate Radiology business |
| Zdroj: | Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 22:431-433 |
| ISSN: | 0730-725X |
| Popis: | A 52-year-old man with history of post-hepatitic cirrhosis presented with ascitis and respiratory distress. Chest X-ray on admission showed a large right hydrothorax. Thoracentesis yielded a large volume of a clear transudate fluid. Peritoneal scintigraphy showed rapid migration of radiotracer into the right pleural cavity, confirming the abdominal origin of the pleural fluid and suspecting a large diaphragmatic defect. MR imaging study using ultrafast sequences confirmed the large diaphragmatic defect. |
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