...Mengyun Zhou; Meng Zhang; Zhou Jin; Xiang Zhao; Kunyao Yu; Junfang Huang; Guangfa Wang; Yuan Cheng Introduction: Previous meta-analyses have explored the diagnostic accuracy and safety of computed tomography-guided percutaneous lung biopsy of ground-glass opacities (GGOs). However, no research...

...Yasuyuki Ikezawa; Noriaki Sukoh; Naofumi Shinagawa; Kosuke Nakano; Satoshi Oizumi; Masaharu Nishimura Background: Ground-glass opacity (GGO) lesions are difficult to diagnose by transbronchial biopsy (TBB). Objectives: We attempted to diagnose solitary peripheral GGO predominant-type lesions by TBB...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Ground-glass opacity Reversed halo sign Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia A 27-year-old, previously healthy woman...

... scanning of his chest revealed a ground-glass opacity measuring 5 × 5 mm in the right lung with no change in its size for the next 7 months. To exclude the possibility of pulmonary neoplasia, he underwent partial pulmonary resection. The postoperative pathologic diagnosis was AAH. The present case is very...