Role of baseline nodule density and changes in density and nodule features in the discrimination between benign and malignant solid indeterminate pulmonary nodules

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 492-498

  Xu, Dong Ming ^a   van Klaveren, Rob J ^b   de Bock, Geertruida H ^c   Leusveld, Anne L M ^c   Dorrius, Monique D ^c   Zhao, Yingru ^c   Wang, Ying ^c   de Koning, Harry J ^b   Scholten, Ernst T ^d   Verschakelen, Johny ^e   Prokop, Mathias ^f   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d University Medical Center Groningen ^*  (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation; CT screening; Indeterminate nodules; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CT SCREENING; ELSEVIER; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; INDETERMINATE NODULES; IRELAND; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CANCER SCREENING; NON-SPHERICAL; PULMONARY NODULES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MORPHOLOGY;

SPHERES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORPHOLOGY; NODULE DENSITY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349147001     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.02.022     Document Type: Article

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