Simplified method of dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography in the evaluation of indeterminate pulmonary nodules

Respiration

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-96

  Da̧browska, Marta ^a   Zukowska, Małgorzata ^a   Krenke, Rafał ^a   Domagała Kulawik, Joanna ^a   Maskey Warzȩchowska, Marta ^a   Bogdan, Jerzy ^b   Pacho, Ryszard ^a   Chazan, Ryszarda ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced computed tomography; Lung cancer; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NODULE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849085965     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000213760     Document Type: Article

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