Imaging of the pleura

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 674-688

  Ayres, John ^a   Gleeson, Fergus ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT; mesothelioma; MRI; PET CT; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; LIVER INJURY; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA THICKENING; PLEURAL SEPSIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR; VIRUS INFECTION;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78651111382     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1269827     Document Type: Article

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