Asbestos Surveillance Program Aachen (ASPA): Initial results from baseline screening for lung cancer in asbestos-exposed high-risk individuals using low-dose multidetector-row CT

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1193-1199

  Das, Marco ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a   Hering, K G ^b   Sirbu, H ^a   Zschiesche, W ^c   Knoll, Lars ^a   Felten, Michael K ^a   Kraus, Thomas ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Knappschaftskrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

^c Berufsgenossenschaft der Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Low dose MDCT screening; Lung cancer; Pulmonary nodules; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT;

AGED; ASBESTOSIS; GERMANY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POWER PLANTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247860845     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0426-8     Document Type: Article

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