The efficacy of routine whole lung tomography in germ cell tumors. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A prospective analysis was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of performing routine whole lung tomography in addition to conventional chest radiography in the initial staging and subsequent management of 120 patients with seminomatous and nonseminomatous germ cell tumors. Two hundred fifty whole lung tomographs were performed on these patients. At presentation, only one patient (0.8%) had positive tomography with simultaneously normal posteroanterior and lateral chest films. On follow-up tomographic examinations, three patients had metastases when chest roentgenographs were normal. In only one patient was therapy altered by tomographic findings. The results indicate that routine whole lung tomography is not useful or cost-effective in the initial staging and subsequent management of patients with germ cell tumors.

publication date

  • September 15, 1984

Research

keywords

  • Lung
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
  • Tomography, X-Ray

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0021125925

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/1097-0142(19840915)54:6<1007::aid-cncr2820540612>3.0.co;2-6

PubMed ID

  • 6088015

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 54

issue

  • 6