[X-ray computed tomography in purulent pleurisy]. / Apport de la scanographie au cours des pleurésies purulentes.

Complementary CT scan imaging during investigation of 18 cases of empyema showed it to be an essential examination, since it established the diagnosis in all cases, determined possible extension of the infectious process and possible causal lesion, defined the most effective approach for percutaneous drainage and evaluated efficacy of the later.

[Ultrasonography and x-ray computed tomography in the diagnosis of intra-abdominal textiloma. Apropos of 12 cases]. / Apport de l'échographie et de la scanographie dans le diagnostic des textilomes intra-abdominaux. A propos de 12 cas.

Feared by every surgeon, retained surgical sponges (or gossypiboma) are rare iatrogenic entities. Ultrasonography and computed tomography are very valuable, providing an immediate answer in the majority of cases. We report 12 cases of intra-abdominal retained surgical swabs. The ultrasonic pattern was made whether of a large poorly echogenic mass with a hyper-echogenic center and sharply delineated posterior acoustic shadow (7 cases) or of a large acoustic shadow posterior to a solitary highly echogenic area (4 cases). Computed tomography demonstrated whether large peripherally enhanced cystic mass associated with serpiginous or spongiform central area (5 cases) or heterogeneous abscess-like fluid mass.