Israa F Jaafar

Al- Esraa University College, Baghdad, Iraq

Publications

• Research Article   
  The techniques of CT scanning in evaluation of diffuse lung disease
  Author(s): Sahar Ahmed Mahdi*, Younis Yaqoub Obid and Israa F Jaafar
  
  Diffuse (Interstitial) lung diseases are a diverse group of pathologies that involve the lung parenchyma and may end with respiratory failure. High resolution computed tomography has made significant progress in describing the pattern and extent of the illness. The study goal was to compare between the techniques of computed tomography used for chest imaging. A descriptive hospital-based study carried on in Baghdad medical city and Mosul General Hospital. A total number of 52 patients with suspected DILD (20 males and 32 females), their age was ranged from (5 to 88 years). The data have been collected from October 2019 to May 2020. The most used technique for diagnosing patients with suspicion of a lung disease is the HRCT technique, which has a percentage 36 (69.23%) while the spiral CT has a percentage 16 (30.77%), as a result the HRCT have twice accuracy than spiral tomography tech.. Read More»
  

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