Detection of small pulomary Bronchial Diseases using Hihgh Resolution Comuted tomography

Abstract

To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the high resolution computerized tomography in evaluating and detecting the level of small pulmonary bronchial and obstructive lung disease. This research deal with comparison between conventional CT and HRCT – high resolution computerized tomography in detection of bronchial diseases. 50 patients clinically diagnosed as obstructive lung disease were studied between January and June 2008 in Alsha'ab teaching hospital, Police hospital and Yastabshroon medical center. The patients underwent CT and HRCT-high resolution computerized tomography to compare the efficiency of each procedure, and the data of each examination was analyzed and show the significant relation ship between the tow investigations. The data is analyzed by the T-test analysis program and showed sig (2-tailed) > 0.001 for the appearance of both anatomy and pathology by the conventional CT procedure, and showed sig (2-tailed) < 0.001 for the appearance of both anatomy and pathology by the HRCT-high resolution computerized tomography; and this mean the first result is effective but not acceptable and the second result is accurate and acceptable according to the statistic program. The analysis result proves that the higher accuracy of HRCT in evaluating of small pulmonary bronchial diseases in 100 per cent of the patients. Lately HRCT play an important role in the diagnosis of obstructive lung diseases.