PURPOSE: This study was conducted to compare the PET and CT findings for patients with a pulmonary lymphangitic metastasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the PET and CT findings of seven patients diagnosed with a pulmonary lymphangitic metastasis between May 2005 and May 2007. RESULTS: All patients had interstitial thickening, as seen on a CT scan, while the PET scans showed abnormal findings in only three patients. In these three patients, one patient had interlobular septal thickening of more than 10, another patient had interlobular septal thickening of more than 5 but less than 10, and another patient had interlobular septal thickening of less than 5. All of the patients had bronchovascular bundle thickening. However, among the four patients that had normal FDG uptake, no patient had interlobular septal thickening of more than 10, two of the patients had interlobular septal thickening of more than 5 but less than 10, and the remaining patients had interlobular septal thickening of less than 5. Only two of the patients had bronchovascular bundle thickening. CONCLUSION: All patients with pulmonary lymphangitic metastasis have typical CT findings, but some of the patients had FDG uptake, as seen in the PET scans. Thus, CT is a more useful modality for diagnosis for pulmonary lymphangitic metastases.
Diagnosis ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; Lymphatic Metastasis ; Neoplasm Metastasis* ; Positron-Emission Tomography ; Retrospective Studies ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

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Breast Feeding* ; Breast* ; Statistics as Topic*

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Darier Disease* ; Friction* ; Keratosis* ; Minocycline

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Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic* ; Wegener Granulomatosis*

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Forehead* ; Hamartoma*

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Interferon-gamma Release Tests* ; Lupus Vulgaris*

BACKGROUND: Thyroid autoimmunity has been increasingly reported to be associated with chronic urticaria (CU), and the possible clinical benefit of thyroid hormone or anti-thyroid drugs in some CU patients with autoimmune thyroid disease has been studied. However, the effect of thyroid hormone or anti-thyroid drugs on clinical symptoms of CU remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the clinical response of urticaria to the treatment of thyroid dysfunction. METHODS: Medical records of patients with CU evaluated for thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid function were collected and reviewed. RESULTS: Of 184 patients with CU, 43 patients (23.4%) had thyroid autoantibodies and 26 patients (14.1%) had thyroid dysfunction. While none of the five patients with Graves' disease showed any improvement of urticaria after treatment with anti-thyroid drugs, two of the 10 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis showed improved urticaria after being treated with levothyroxine. CONCLUSION: Although levothyroxine treatment was effective in a minority of patients with CU, there may be a causal relationship between CU and thyroid autoimmunity.
Autoantibodies ; Autoimmunity* ; Graves Disease ; Humans ; Medical Records ; Thyroid Diseases ; Thyroid Gland* ; Thyroiditis ; Thyroxine* ; Urticaria*

BACKGROUND: Thyroid autoimmunity has been increasingly reported to be associated with chronic urticaria (CU), and the possible clinical benefit of thyroid hormone or anti-thyroid drugs in some CU patients with autoimmune thyroid disease has been studied. However, the effect of thyroid hormone or anti-thyroid drugs on clinical symptoms of CU remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the clinical response of urticaria to the treatment of thyroid dysfunction. METHODS: Medical records of patients with CU evaluated for thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid function were collected and reviewed. RESULTS: Of 184 patients with CU, 43 patients (23.4%) had thyroid autoantibodies and 26 patients (14.1%) had thyroid dysfunction. While none of the five patients with Graves' disease showed any improvement of urticaria after treatment with anti-thyroid drugs, two of the 10 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis showed improved urticaria after being treated with levothyroxine. CONCLUSION: Although levothyroxine treatment was effective in a minority of patients with CU, there may be a causal relationship between CU and thyroid autoimmunity.
Autoantibodies ; Autoimmunity* ; Graves Disease ; Humans ; Medical Records ; Thyroid Diseases ; Thyroid Gland* ; Thyroiditis ; Thyroxine* ; Urticaria*

Cough, the most common symptom, encountered in the outpatient clinic can be caused by various underlying diseases. It defines as chronic cough that the duration of cough is more than 8 weeks with a normal chest X-ray findings. The cause of cough can be found out for more than 90% through the appropriate diagnostic approach and Upper airway cough syndrome, Asthma and Gastroesophageal reflex disease are the most common causes of disease to non-smokers. Chronic cough can be due to not one reason but various reasons and achieve good results by a systematic approach to diagnosis and a concrete treatment on the basis of the sufficient understanding of the underlying disease.
Ambulatory Care Facilities ; Asthma ; Cough* ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential* ; Reflex ; Thorax