美发现超声波在诊断胸廓疾病方面具有很高的应用价值

 
 
超声波检查或许不久即可用于诊断胸廓出口综合征(TOS)，根据2006年2月末在San Diego(CA, USA)举行的美国疼痛控制学会年会(AAPM)的一篇发言说，这种方法价格经济而且更加迅速可靠。

在他的AAPM会议上的发言中，Sheldon E. Jordan医生讲解了他使用超声波检测TOS的研究结果，他是加州大学洛山矶分校(UCLA; USA)神经病学临床副教授。这种疾病能够能够导致手和上肢麻木与疼痛，这是由于斜角肌三角之间压迫而形成的，这已经成为充满争议的问题。与腰椎间盘损伤一样，胸廓出口综合征的解剖学病变在那些没有被诊断出来的患者中已经十分典型，而且不一定总是表现为疼痛，这就使得影像学检查变得十分复杂。
 
Ultrasound Valuable in Diagnosing Thoracic Disorder
 
Ultrasound imaging may soon make diagnosing thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) less expensive, quicker, and more readily available, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Management (AAPM) in late February 2006 in San Diego (CA, USA).

In his presentation at the AAPM, Sheldon E. Jordan, M.D., clinical associate professor of neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; USA), discussed his study’s findings on the use of ultrasound to diagnose TOS. The syndrome, which causes numbness and pain in the hand and forearm because of compression in the interscalene triangle, has been a controversial topic. Similar to lumbar disc damage, anatomic findings of thoracic outlet syndrome are typical in undiagnosed individuals and are not always associated with pain, which makes imaging-based diagnosis more complex.