Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias: Prevalence of mediastinal lymph node enlargement in 206 patients

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 995-999

  Souza, Carolina Althoff ^a   Müller, Nestor L ^a   Kyung, Soo Lee ^b   Johkoh, Takeshi ^c   Mitsuhiro, Hiromitsu ^c   Chong, Semin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest; CT; Interstitial pneumonia; Lung diseases; Lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOGENIC ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; DESQUAMATIVE PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONSPECIFIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BRONCHIOLITIS INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM; RADIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PREVALENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646938095     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1663     Document Type: Article

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