Mediastinal nodes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: MRI findings with PET/CT and pathologic correlation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 813-821

  Dae, Wook Yeh ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Han, Joungho ^a   Yi, Chin A ^a   Ho, Yun Lee ^a   Myung, Jin Chung ^a   Tae, Sung Kim ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Lymph node; MRI; Pathology; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS HISTIOCYTOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69949103752     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.2083     Document Type: Article

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