Solitary pulmonary nodules: Dynamic enhanced multi-detector row CT study and comparison with vascular endothelial growth factor and microvessel density

Radiology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 191-199

  Yi, Chin A ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Kim, Eun A ^b   Han, Joungho ^a   Kim, Hojoong ^a   Kwon, O Jung ^a   Jeong, Yeon Joo ^a   Kim, Seonwoo ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Lung neoplasms; Lung neoplasms, CT; Lung neoplasms, diagnosis

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAMARTOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 4644294238     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2331031535     Document Type: Article

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