Abstract
Computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest and routine postero-anterior and lateral chest films were compared in 32 patients with pathologically proven oat cell carcinoma of the lung. Nineteen of the 32 patients were examined prior to any form of therapy. Overall, CT gave more information about the extent of disease. The significance of this information may be of little value because the routine chest films also demonstrated mediastinal involvement, although to a lesser degree. Computed tomography of the chest should not be the initial diagnostic staging procedure in oat cell carcinoma, but used selectively. It can be quite useful in patients who have a partially opacified lung, possibly for the evaluation of mediastinum after therapy, and for the evaluation of possible abdominal metastases.
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