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Objective To investigate the efficiency and application value of CT-guided percutaneous puncture biopsy in the diagnosis of lung disease.Methods The clinical and imaging data of 60 patients with CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy were analyzed retrospectively.Results Among all the 60 patients, 57 had finally to be proved by pathological diagnosis, including 47 primary lung cancer (21 squamous cell carcinoma, 18 adenocarcinoma, 3 small cell lung cancer and 5 bronchioloalveolar carcinoma), 7 metastatic lung cancer and 3 tuberculosis.In addition, 3 cases were chronic inflammation and did not make a definite diagnosis, in which 2 were proved to be caseous pneumonia and 1 was proved to be fungus infection by postoperative pathology.The successful rate of punctures,the diagnostic accuracy and the total complications rate of lung puncture biopsy in 60 cases was 100%, 95.0% and 21.7% [11.7% pneumothorax (7/60), 8.3% hemoptysis (5/60) and 1.7% needle bleeding(1/60)].Conclusion CT-guided percutaneous puncture biopsy is a safe, accurate and significant clinical method in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of lung lesions.
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Objective To investigate the changes of the gray matter in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) based on the voxel based morphometry (VBM).Methods 35 patients with RA and 30 healthy volunteers with age,sex and education level matched performed a high-resolution 3D-T1-weighted whole brain structural scan by GE Signa HDxt 1.5T MRI scanner.The high resolution T1WI images were preprocessed by the VBM 12 implemented in the SPM 12 software to display the gray matter structures of the RA patients and the healthy volunteers.T test was used to compare the morphological changes of gray matter between the RA patients and the volunteers.Results The gray matter volume gray matter volume in the right lentiform nucleus,left frontal lobe and left cerebellum posterior lobe significantly decreased in RA patients,and their gray matter volume had no correlation with the clinical indications.The increase of gray matter volume was not found in the RA patients.Conclusion RA patients show decreased gray matter volume in several cerebral regions,which suggests that RA can lead to the brain structural abnormalities.VBM can provide an objective imaging evidence to evaluate the cerebral morphological abnormalities of RA.