Malignant pleural mesothelioma: Computed tomography and correlation with histology

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 485-491

  Seely, Jean M ^a   Nguyen, Elsie T ^c   Churg, Andrew M ^b   Müller, Nestor L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Health Sciences Centre ^*

Author keywords

CT; Malignancy; Mesothelioma; Pathology; Pleura

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT; CT IMAGING; CT SCAN; HISTOLOGY SLIDES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALIGNANCY; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMAS; MEAN AGES; MESOTHELIOMA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PLEURA; PLEURAL EFFUSION; VOLUME LOSS;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BIOPSY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KAPPA STATISTICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA THICKENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349216318     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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