Pulmonary Wegener's granulomatosis: Correlation between high-resolution CT findings and clinical scoring of disease activity

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 500-506

  Reuter, Michael ^a   Schnabel, Armin ^b   Wesner, Frank ^a   Tetzlaff, Kay ^a   Risheng, Yu ^a,c   Gross, Wolfgang L ^b   Heller, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Lung; Lung, CT; Lung, diseases; Lung, nodule; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0031840919     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.2.500     Document Type: Article

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