Importance of intrapulmonary lymph nodes in the differential diagnosis of small pulmonary nodular shadows

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 703-706

  Yokomise, Hiroyasu ^a,b   Mizuno, Hiroshi ^a   Ike, Osamu ^a   Wada, Hiromi ^a   Hitomi, Shigeki ^a   Itoh, Harumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS WAKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT examination; Intrapulmonary lymph nodes; Lung cancer; Small nodular shadow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG HILUS; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0031936303     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.3.703     Document Type: Article

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