Pulmonary nodular ground-glass opacities in patients with extrapulmonary cancers: What is their clinical significance and how can we determine whether they are malignant or benign lesions?

Chest

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1402-1409

  Park, Chang Min ^a   Goo, Jin Mo ^a,c   Kim, Tae Jung ^a   Lee, Hyun Ju ^a   Lee, Kyung Won ^a   Lee, Chang Hyun ^a   Kim, Young Tae ^a   Kim, Kwang Gi ^b   Lee, Ho Yun ^a   Park, Eun Ah ^a   Im, Jung Gi ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computer; CT scan; Lung cancer; Radiology diagnostic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

EID: 45949104837     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.07-2568     Document Type: Article

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