AJR ARRS Member Benefits
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by WOESNER, M. E.
Right arrow Articles by WHITE, G. W.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by WOESNER, M. E.
Right arrow Articles by WHITE, G. W.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

THE MELTING SIGN IN RESOLVING TRANSIENT PULMONARY INFARCTION

MERLIN E. WOESNER M.D.1, ISAAC SANDERS M.D.2, and GEOFFREY W. WHITE M.D.3

1 Chief of Diagnostic Radiology; Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
2 Director of Training, Radiological Sciences; Assistant Professor of Radiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
3 Resident in Radiology.

A new concept of the resolution pattern of a pulmonary infarct as demonstrated on periodic follow-up chest roentgenographic examination is presented. For purposes of simplicity and identification, this concept has been termed the melting sign. The concept has been derived by the clinical roentgenologic observation over a number of years that many, if not most, pulmonary infarctions which go to resolution (and do not organize) present a roentgenologic pattern different from resolving pneumonia (Fig. 11; and 12).

The importance of the observation may be stressed by the fact that, in some instances, the sign has been the initial finding leading to the establishment of the diagnosis of pulmonary infarction. Its greater value probably lies in establishing a higher confidence level in the diagnosis of pulmonary thrombo-embolic disease on plain chest roentgenograms when infarction coexists.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?




HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1971 by the American Roentgen Ray Society.