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Purpose: The purpose of this work was to describe the findings and the long term follow up of pathologically confirmed bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma (BALTOMA) in 6 patients., Methods: CT examinations and conventional radiological examinations were reviewed and compared to describe typical radiological findings and patterns of pulmonary manifestations. It were described the number of lesions and characteristics like presence of airspace consolidation, ground-glass attenuation, bubble-like radiolucencies, air bronchogram, bronchial dilatation, Infiltration and the long term behaviour of the manifestations., Results: Lesions with a positive air bronchogram, no infiltration of extrapulmonary tissue or extrapulmonary manifestations were revealed as typical findings. Only a slow or no progression of disease was shown in most patients over a term of up to twelve years., Conclusions: The lymphoma of the bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue of the lung is a rare tumor. A positive air bronchogram, a multiplicity of disease, bilateral lesions, a fibrotic transformation of the lung tissue and no growth or only a slow groth over al long term of observation are typical radiological findings.

Purpose: Aim of the study was to compare the visualisation of small bowel tumours particularly lymphoma of the small bowel by enteroclysma, computed tomography (CT) and computed tomography following enteroclysma., Methods: We examined 97 examinations in 63 patients. Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma was the primary malignancy in 44 patients, metastasis of different malignancies in 8 patients, primary malignancies of the small intestine in 5 patients, mesenteric tumours in 4 patients and postoperative stricture in another 2 patients. CT following enteroclysma (CT Sellink) was performed as helical CT in 55 patients and as incremental CT in 42 patients. Examinations were evaluated by two radiologists. Evaluation criteria were small bowel distension, perceptibility of details and topographic correlation., Results: Manifestations of lymphoma were found in 32 patients, infiltration of bowel wall in 12 patients. In three patients metastases of melanoma were found. In three patients the suspicion for small bowel tumours was not verified in CT Sellink. The perceptibility of details was evaluated as ameliorated in 45.5% of examinations over all., Conclusions: CT Sellink offers remarkable advantages in the diagnosis of small bowel tumours compared with enteroclysma and "conventional" computed tomography under intra-venous and oral contrast media. CT Sellink was feasible over a time of 7 years now in clinical praxis. This examination represents an optimized standard in small intestine examination.

The aim of the study was to estimate the value of MRI for evaluation tumors of the shoulder girdle. We diagnosed respectively 13 patients with lesions in the shoulder region. The imaging has been done with a "Magnetom SP 63" (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany). The protocol consisted of T1- and T2-based SE-sequences in axial slice orientation, T1-based imaging in coronary respectively in sagittal slice orientation as well as T1-based sequences after application of contrast medium. The evaluation of the tumor expansion within the soft tissue was possible. The exact diagnosis in some individual cases--neurinoma, cyst of the synovia--could be found by MRI. Estimation of the dignity in the case of infiltrative growth was possible in most cases. To assess the exact type of tumor was often difficult. Especially the dignity of the cartilaginous tumors could not be precisely described.