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Review of current German radiological literature

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

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Preparing this third brief periodical survey of significant papers of the German radiological literature has provided a welcome incentive against indolence during the holiday season. It offered again the chance of making a selective review of advances in medical radiology during 1975 as recorded in the leading journals printed in German. The subjective character of such a selective review is obvious. While the selection includes some new data, much more of it represents confirmation and elaboration of previous achievements. An analysis of its content might well contribute to an understanding of the psychology of a regular reader of radiological journals, by indicating the contributions selected for comment when a mainly diagnostically orientated radiologist is given a free hand in making his own selection of medical radiology papers published in his native literary language.

The value and use of percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy of intrathoracic disease are carefully evaluated, based upon 5300 studies (Sinner, 1975). Needle biopsy proved to be technically simple and relatively safe; it permits early diagnosis of bronchial carcinoma and solitary metastases with a high degree of accuracy, and with few complications. The author assumes that, as a result, the prognosis of patients with bronchial carcinoma in the pre-clinical stage may be markedly improved.