Incremental value of PET/CT over CT for mediastinal nodal staging of non-small cell lung cancer: Comparison between patients with and without idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 370-376

  Jeon, Tae Yeon ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Yi, Chin A ^a   Chung, Man Pyo ^a   Kwon, O Jung ^a   Kim, Byung Tae ^a   Shim, Young Mog ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CT; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Integrated PET CT; Lung; Neoplasm; Thorax

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955591439     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3772     Document Type: Article

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