Pulmonary ground-glass nodules: Increase in mass as an early indicator of growth

Radiology

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 199-206

  De Hoop, Bartjan ^a   Gietema, Hester ^a,c   Van De Vorst, Saskia ^a   Murphy, Keelin ^b   Van Klaveren, Rob J ^d   Prokop, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG GROUND GLASS NODULE; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77950427436     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09090571     Document Type: Article

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