High Opacification of Hilar Pulmonary Vessels with a Small Amount of Nonionic Contrast Medium for General Thoracic CT: A Prospective Study
Pierre Loubeyre1,
Isabelle Debard2,
Chantal Nemoz3 and
Van André Tran Minh2
1 Service de Radiologie, l'Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de
Genève, rue Micheli-du-Crest, CH-1211 Genève 14,
Switzerland.
2 Service de Radiologie, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, EA 643, Chemin du Grand
Revoyet, 69495 Pierre Benite Cedex, France.
3 Unité de Pharmacologie Clinique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon
1, 8 Ave., Rockefeller, 69373 Lyon, Cedex 08, France.

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Fig. 1. Contrast-enhanced helical CT scan in 61-year-old man with
lymphoma. Pulmonary enhancement was scored 1 (on a scale of 4), poor.
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Fig. 2. Contrast-enhanced helical CT scan in 46-year-old man with
lymphoma. Pulmonary enhancement was scored 2 (on a scale of 4), fair.
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Fig. 3. Contrast-enhanced helical CT scan in 53-year-old man with
pulmonary malignancy. Pulmonary enhancement was scored 3 (on a scale of 4),
good.
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Fig. 4. Contrast-enhanced helical CT scan in 43-year-old woman with
pulmonary infection. Pulmonary enhancement was scored 4 (on a scale of 4),
excellent.
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