Distinguishing benign from malignant pulmonary nodules with helical chest CT in children with malignant solid tumors

Radiology

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 514-520

  McCarville, M Beth ^a,c   Lederman, Henrique M ^a,b   Santana, Victor M ^a,c   Daw, Najat C ^a,c   Shochat, Stephen J ^a,c   Li, Chin Shang ^a   Kaufman, Robert A ^a,c  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPARATUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33646133002     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2392050631     Document Type: Review

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