Appearances of mediastinal and pulmonary hilar lymph nodes on thin-section CT: comparison with 5 mm slice thickness CT

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 375-378

  Nambu, Atsushi ^a   Kato, Satoshi ^b   Saito, Akitoshi ^b   Araki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Kofu Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; Lung cancer; Mediastinum; N staging

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULMONARY DISEASES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HILAR LYMPH NODES; LUNG CANCER; MEDIASTINUM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG HILUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SLICE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35748966455     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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