Unusual primary lung tumors: A radiologic-pathologic overview

Radiographics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 601-619

  Giménez, Ana ^a   Franquet, Tomás ^a   Prats, Rosa ^a   Estrada, Pilar ^a   Villalba, Jordi ^a   Bagué, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis, 60.68; Granuloma, plasma cell, 60.3183; Lung neoplasms, 60.319, 60.321, 60.33, 60.34, 60.371; Lung neoplasms, CT, 60.1211; Lung neoplasms, diagnosis, 60.1211, 60.1214; Lung neoplasms, MR, 60.1214; Lung, nodule; Lung, radiography, 60.11

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SARCOMA; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036580955     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.22.3.g02ma25601     Document Type: Review

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