Identifying the most infectious lesions in pulmonary tuberculosis by high-resolution multi-detector computed tomography

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2135-2145

  Yeh, Jun Jun ^a,b,c   Chen, Solomon Chih Cheng ^a,d   Teng, Wen Bao ^a   Chou, Chun Hsiung ^a   Hsieh, Shih Peng ^a   Lee, Tsung Lung ^a   Wu, Ming Ting ^e  

^a PINGTUNG CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b MEIHO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Patient isolation; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve; Sputum; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CAVITY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL LOAD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77957941550     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-010-1796-5     Document Type: Article

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