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Does angiocardiography and thoracic aortography help distinguish vascular from nonvascular lesions to guide surgical planning in patients with mediastinal lesions?
Does angiocardiography and thoracic aortography help distinguish vascular from nonvascular lesions to guide surgical planning in patients with mediastinal lesions?
Angiocardiography and thoracic aortography provide accurate means of distinguishing vascular from nonvascular mediastinal lesions, aiding in surgical planning when standard roentgenograms or fluoroscopy are insufficient.
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May aid preoperative distinction of mediastinal lesions when standard imaging is inconclusive; leaves open validation against contemporary noninvasive modalities.
The question whether a given mediastinal lesion is amenable to surgery is not always answerable by roentgenograms or by fluoroscopy. Often the only accurate means of distinguishing vascular from nonvascular lesions is provided by angiocardiography and thoracic aortography. The techniques here described were used in obtaining 188 angiocardiograms and 17 thoracic aortograms in 200 patients. The value of the information so obtained in planning surgical procedures, if any, is illustrated by 12 case histories.
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