Mucinous versus nonmucinous solitary pulmonary nodular bronchioloalveolar carcinoma: CT and FDG PET findings and pathologic comparisons

Lung Cancer

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 170-175

  Lee, Ho Yun ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Han, Joungho ^b   Kim, Byung Tae ^b   Cho, Young Seok ^b   Shim, Young Mog ^b   Kim, Jhingook ^b  

^a Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma; CT lung neoplasms; Ground glass opacity; Lung neoplasms; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MUCINOUS NODULAR LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; NONMUCINOUS SOLITARY NODULAR LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, BRONCHIOLO-ALVEOLAR; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67449158074     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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