Screening for early lung cancer with low-dose spiral CT: Prevalence in 817 asymptomatic smokers

Radiology

Volumn 222, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 773-781

  Diederich, Stefan ^a   Wormanns, Dag ^a   Semik, Michael ^a   Thomas, Michael ^a   Lenzen, Horst ^a   Roos, Nikolaus ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Computed tomography (CT), radiation exposure; Lung neoplasms, CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036190266     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2223010490     Document Type: Article

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