Presence of local pleural adhesion in CT screening-detected small nodule in the lung periphery suggests noncancerous, inflammatory nature of the lesion

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 385-389

  Hanaoka, Takaomi ^a   Sone, Shusuke ^b   Takayama, Fumiyoshi ^a   Hayano, Toshihide ^a   Yamaguchi, Shinji ^a   Okada, Mitsuyo ^a  

^a Azumi General Hospital   (Japan)

^b JA Nagano Chu Nanshin Regional Cancer Screening Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Local pleural adhesions; Low dose chest CT screening; Pseudopositives; Small peripheral pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SURGERY;

ATYPICAL ADENOMATOUS HYPERPLASIA (AAH); INFLAMMATORY FOCAL LESIONS; LOCAL PLEURAL ADHESIONS; PSEUDOPOSITIVES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADHESION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; BRONCHIECTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; PLEURA; PLEURA ADHESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADHESIONS; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; INFLAMMATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35748942921     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2007.04.029     Document Type: Article

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