Quantitative CT predicts the severity of physiologic dysfunction in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis

Chest

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-137

  Crausman, Robert S ^a   Lynch, David A ^b   Mortenson, Rebecca L ^a   King Jr , Talmadge E ^a   Irvin, Charles G ^a   Hale, Valerie A E ^b   Newell Jr , John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; exercise physiology; pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM); pulmonary mechanics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHANGIOMYOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030067938     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.109.1.131     Document Type: Article

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