Incidental lung nodules on CT examinations of the abdomen: Prevalence and reporting rates in the PACS era

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Rinaldi, Maria Francesca ^a   Bartalena, Tommaso ^a   Giannelli, Giovanni ^a   Rinaldi, Giovanni ^a   Sverzellati, Nicola ^b   Canini, Romeo ^c   Gavelli, Giampaolo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Incidental finding; MDCT; PACS; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SITUATIONS; DIGITAL FORMAT; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LEGAL IMPLICATIONS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUMBER AND SIZE; PATIENT CARE; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PULMONARY NODULES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT CARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952883663     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.04.019     Document Type: Article

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