Ground-glass opacity: Interpretation of high resolution CT findings;Opacità a vetro smerigliato (ground-glass): Interpretazione dei quadri con TC ad alta risoluzione

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 106, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 425-444

  Battista, Giuseppe ^a   Sassi, Claudia ^a   Zompatori, Maurizio ^a,b   Palmarini, Domenico ^a   Canini, Romeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground glass opacity; High resolution CT; Lung, ground glass opacity

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ATTENUATION; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VOLUME; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CAPILLARY FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FIBROSIS; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HAZE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA; PRONE POSITION; PULMONARY EDEMA; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0742301348     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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