Keywords:
Neoplasia, Staging, Diagnostic procedure, Ultrasound, MR, CT, Thorax, Paediatric, Mediastinum, Pathology
Authors:
Z. Qechchar, R. Taoussi, D. LAOUDIYI, K. Chbani, S. Salam, L. OUZIDANE; Casablanca/MA
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-3721
Methods and materials
In our retrospective descriptive study,
48 cases of mediastinal masses were collected over 3 years (January 2015 to January 2018) in the Pediatric Radiology Department of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital (Casablanca-Morocco).
The histological confirmation was obtained for all cases.
All our patients were explored by Chest XRay and a CT scan
CT-Scan examinations were performed using a 16 slices system machine (Optima 520,
General Electric (GE),
Morocco).
Patients were placed in prone position. The protocol consisted of helical acquisition (2mm) before and after contrast enhancement,
with automatic MPR and lung reconstructions.
Three observers independently analyzed chest X-Ray and CT-Scan data of our cases; observer 1 & 2 were radiology residents,
the diagnosis was confirmed by a third observer (pediatric radiologist [MD,
Ph.D.]).
Imaging findings were subsequently compared to histological data.
Patients data was collected in an exploitation sheet and were expressed as average values and percentages for their exploitation and their comparison with those of the literature.
For statistical analysis,
IBM SPSS Statistics 21 was used.