Assessment of pneumonia severity: multidetector-row CT in comparison to clinical score CRB-65

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 342-345

  Pauls, Sandra ^a   Krüger, Stefan ^a   Muche, Rainer ^a   Klemen, Daisy ^a   Billich, Christian ^a   Gerstner, Susanne ^a   Schmidt, Stefan A ^a   Hombach, Vinzenz ^a   Brambs, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Lung; Pneumonia; Severity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; HEALTH;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG; MORPHOLOGIC CHANGES; MULTIDETECTOR-ROW CT; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY RATES; SEVERITY;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHOGRAPHY; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRB 65; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50049118822     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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