CET in Differential Diagnosis of Diffuse Pleural Disease

İn this article, CT features of 21 cases with be-nign and 21 cases with malignant pleural diseases were described. Features that are helpful in distinc-tion malignant from bening pleural disease were, mediastinal pleural invasion, nodular and more than 1 cm tickening in pleura. The specıficities of these findings were 77%, 93%, 100% and sen,.sitivities 50%, 50%, 33%, respectively. High contrast en-hancement that does not show significant differenpe was detected in all malignant lesions and benign in-fectious pleural diseases. Consequently, it has been emphasized that CT is a useful radiologic method in detertnining of pleural lesions and, their extentions and, in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant conditions.