Population
100 patients without documented pericardial disease (46 males and 49 females in the analyzed subset of 95)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Establishes 4 mm as CT upper limit of normal pericardial thickness; leaves open prospective validation for diagnosing pericardial disease.
The normal pericardium has a mean thickness of 2.2 mm on CT and does not exceed 4 mm, providing a reference standard for diagnosing pericardial disease.
Silverman et al. (1983) studied this question.