Imaging of Pleural Disease

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-213

  Qureshi, Nagmi R ^a   Gleeson, Fergus V ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA THICKENING; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ATELECTASIS; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646581740     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2006.02.001     Document Type: Review

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