Clinical significance of a solitary ground-glass opacity (GGO) lesion of the lung detected by chest CT

Lung Cancer

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-73

  Oh, Jin Young ^a,b   Kwon, Sung Youn ^a,c   Yoon, Ho Il ^a,c   Lee, Sang Min ^a   Yim, Jae Joon ^a   Lee, Jae Ho ^a,c   Yoo, Chul Gyu ^a   Kim, Young Whan ^a   Han, Sung Koo ^a   Shim, Young Soo ^a   Kim, Tae Jung ^c   Lee, Kyung Won ^c   Chung, Jin Haeng ^c   Jheon, Sang Hoon ^c   Sung, Sook Whan ^c   Lee, Choon Taek ^a,c  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Dongguk University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma; Eosinophil; Focal ground glass opacity; High resolution CT; Lung cancer; mGGO; pGGO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846008069     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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