Differential diagnosis of ground-glass opacity nodules: CT number analysis by three-dimensional computerized quantification

Chest

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 984-990

  Ikeda, Koei ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Mori, Takeshi ^a   Kawanaka, Koichi ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a   Nomori, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Pathology lung cancer; Radiology lung cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LUNG; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; CARCINOMA; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35449003214     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.07-0793     Document Type: Article

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