Pictorial essay: Multinodular disease: A high-resolution CT scan diagnostic algorithm

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Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 805-815

  Raoof, Suhail ^a   Amchentsev, Alexey ^a   Vlahos, Ioannis ^b   Goud, Ajay ^c   Naidich, David P ^b  

^a NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Multinodular; Multiple nodules

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; THYROID CANCER;

EID: 33645122154     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.129.3.805     Document Type: Article

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