Thoracic vascular disease in oncologic patients

Abstract Patients with oncologic disease require frequent imaging tests (predominantly computed tomography) for follow-up. These patients may have thoracic vascular disease that can influence the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of their cancer. Primary vascular tumors can involve the thoracic ve...

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Published in:Radiología (English ed.) 2011-07, Vol.53 (4), p.335-348
Main Authors: Varona Porres, D, Andreu Soriano, J, Pallisa Núñez, E, Persiva Morenza, O, Roque Pérez, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical oncology
Enfermedades torácicas
Enfermedades vasculares
Multidetector CT
Oncología clínica
Radiology
TC multicorte
Thoracic diseases
Vascular diseases
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Summary:Abstract Patients with oncologic disease require frequent imaging tests (predominantly computed tomography) for follow-up. These patients may have thoracic vascular disease that can influence the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of their cancer. Primary vascular tumors can involve the thoracic vessels, like the pulmonary arteries (pulmonary artery sarcoma), and the neoplastic disease can extend locally (lung tumor) or remotely to the thoracic vessels (pulmonary tumor embolism and pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy). Oncologic treatment results in multiple complications that involve the thoracic vessels and can even compromise the patient's life in certain cases. CT, and especially multislice CT, makes it possible to evaluate neoplastic disease and associated thoracic vascular disease in oncologic patients.
ISSN:2173-5107
2173-5107
DOI:10.1016/j.rxeng.2011.01.002