Continuing education the aging chest;L'imagerie du thorax chez la personne agee

Journal Belge de Radiologie

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 239-242

  Trigaux, J P ^a   Swine, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aging; Radiography; Thorax

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; BOCHDALEK HERNIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMPHYSEMA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAPHRAGM; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RIBS; SYPHILIS, CARDIOVASCULAR; THORACIC DISEASES; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 0030807794     PISSN: 00217646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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