Multiple focal pure ground-glass opacities on high-resolution CT images: Clinical significance in patients with lung cancer

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Tsutsui, Shin ^a   Ashizawa, Kazuto ^b   Minami, Kazunori ^c   Tagawa, Tsutomu ^a   Nagayasu, Takeshi ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^b   Uetani, Masataka ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Nagasaki Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia; Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma; Focal pure ground glass opacity; High resolution CT; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LOBE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955652363     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3828     Document Type: Article

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