Imaging Evaluation of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-38

  Klein, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Braff, Samuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOIDOSIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HAMARTOMA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG CYST; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; REVIEW; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38949180293     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2007.11.007     Document Type: Review

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