Imaging of Lung Hamartomas by Multidetector Computed Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1769-1772

  De Cicco, Concetta ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a,b   Bartolomei, Mirco ^a   Carbone, Giuseppe ^a   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Veronesi, Giulia ^a   De Pas, Tommaso ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,b   Paganelli, Giovanni ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG HAMARTOMA; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56049102625     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.08.033     Document Type: Article

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