title: Diagnosis of Grave's disease with pulmonary hypertension on chest CT.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of chest CT findings to diagnose Grave's disease in pulmonary hypertension.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively evaluated chest CT and the medical records of 13 patients with Grave's disease with (n=6) or without pulmonary hypertension (n=7) and in 17 control patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Presence of iso-attenuation of diffusely enlarged thyroid glands compared with adjacent neck muscle on non-enhanced CT as a diagnostic clue of Grave's disease, and assessment of pulmonary hypertension on CT has high diagnostic accuracy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chest CT has the potential to diagnose Grave's disease with pulmonary hypertension in the absence of other information.
authors.affiliation: Smile Radiologic Clinic, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hwa Yeon
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, CHA University College of Medicine, Bundang, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: smyoo@cha.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Seung Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, CHA University College of Medicine, Bundang, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hye Rin
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Bundang, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Eun Ju
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Chun
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013909:Thorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
keywords: CT; Grave's disease; Pulmonary hypertension