Characterization of small pulmonary nodules by CT

European Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1380-1391

  Wormanns, Dag ^a   Diederich, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MARIEN HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Differential diagnosis; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORACOSCOPY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 4444224070     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-004-2335-z     Document Type: Article

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