Snippet 18: The Jellyfish and Multiple Pleural Tag Signs

Two new signs, the jellyfish sign and the multiple pleural tags to different pleural surfaces - help in improving our ability to predict visceral pleural invasion

Bhavin Jankharia

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Technical and Practice Issues * Case 11: 62-years old misdiagnosed to have interstitial lung disease - mid-inspiratory and expiratory scans * Snippet 03: Radiation risk and CT chest * Case 23: 60-years old - 40-pack years smoker - right upper lobe nodule - resolved using “mean” reconstructions…

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This post is based on this new paper published last week, where the authors have described multiple signs that help predict visceral pleural invasion in malignant lung nodules measuring less than 30mm in size.

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/suppl/10.1148/radiol.231611

It is rare for new signs to be described in radiology and whether these signs will be around 5 years from now, remains to be seen.

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