Measurement of localized ground-glass attenuation on thin-section computed tomography images: Correlation with the progression of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma of the lung

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 692-697

  Nagao, Michinobu ^a   Murase, Kenya ^b   Yasuhara, Yoshifumi ^c   Ikezoe, Junpei ^c   Eguchi, Kenji ^d   Mogami, Hiroshi ^e   Mandai, Koichi ^e   Nakata, Masao ^e   Ooshiro, Yumi ^e,f  

^a Matsuyama Medical Center for Cancer   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Shikoku Cancer Center   (Japan)

^f MATSUYAMA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0036897238     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200212000-00009     Document Type: Article

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