Neglectable benefit of searching for incidental findings in the Dutch-Belgian lung cancer screening trial (NELSON) using low-dose multidetector CT

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1474-1482

  van de Wiel, J C M ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Xu, D M ^a   van der Zaag Loonen, H J ^a   van der Jagt, E J ^a   van Klaveren, R J ^b   Oudkerk, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incidental findings; Low dose computed tomography; Lung cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GOITER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RADIOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248682138     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0532-7     Document Type: Article

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