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ArticleLa Radiologia medica2018

Pulmonary measles disease: old and new imaging tools.

Fabrizio Albarello, Massimo Cristofaro, Elisa Busi Rizzi, Maria Letizia Giancola, Emanuele Nicastri, Vincenzo Schininà

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Article in La Radiologia medica, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Role of Chest Imaging in Viral Lung Diseases.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  6. Pulmonary involvement in patients with measles.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fabrizio AlbarelloDiagnostic Imaging Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, L.Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
Massimo CristofaroDiagnostic Imaging Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, L.Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
Elisa Busi RizziDiagnostic Imaging Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, L.Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
Maria Letizia GiancolaClinical Department, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, L.Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
Emanuele NicastriClinical Department, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, L.Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
Vincenzo SchininàDiagnostic Imaging Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, L.Spallanzani, Rome, Italy. vincenzo.schinina@inmi.it.
Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMeasles virus can cause lower respiratory tract infection, so that chest radiography is necessary to investigate lung involvement in patients with respiratory distress. PURPOSE: To assess measles pneumonia imaging during the measles outbreak occurred in 2016-2017 in Italy. MATERIAL AND

methodsWe retrospectively observed adult patients with a serological diagnosis of measles, who underwent chest-X rays for suspected pneumonia. If a normal radiography resulted, the patient underwent unenhanced CT. A CT post processing software package was used for an additional quantitative lung and airway involvement analysis .

resultsAmong 290 patients affected by measles, 150 underwent chest-X ray. Traditional imaging allowed the pneumonia diagnosis in 114 patients (76%). The most frequent abnormality at chest X-rays was bronchial wall thickening, observed in 88.5% of the cases; radiological findings are faint in the 25% of the cases (29/114 patients). In nine subjects with a normal chest X-ray, unenhanced CT with a quantitative analysis was performed, and depicted features consistent with constrictive bronchiolitis.

conclusionMeasles may produce bronchiolitis and pneumonia. In the cases in which involvement of pulmonary parenchyma is not sufficient to result in radiological abnormalities, CT used with a dedicated postprocessing software package, provides an accurate lungs and airways analysis, also determining the percentage of lung involvement.

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AdolescentAdultAgedDisease OutbreaksFemaleHumansItalyMaleMeaslesMiddle AgedPneumonia, ViralRadiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedRadiography, ThoracicRetrospective StudiesTomography, X-Ray ComputedBronchiolitisComputer tomographyComputer tomography quantitative airway analysisConventional radiographyMeaslesPneumonia

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