Efficacy of PET/CT in the characterization of solid or partly solid solitary pulmonary nodules

Lung Cancer

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-194

  Jeong, Sun Young ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Shin, Kyung Min ^a   Bae, Young A ^a   Kim, Byung Tae ^b   Choe, Bong Keun ^c   Kim, Tae Sung ^a   Chung, Myung Jin ^a  

^a Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Lung neoplasms, CT; Lung neoplasms, diagnosis; Lung neoplasms, PET; Lung, nodule

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; ANTHRACOFIBROSIS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRYPTOCOCCOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSING PNEUMOCYTOMA; TUBERCULOMA;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47649114616     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.12.021     Document Type: Article

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