Preliminary study on the correlation between grading and histology of solitary pulmonary nodules and contrast enhancement and [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose standardised uptake value after evaluation by dynamic multiphase CT and PET/CT

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 114-119

  Cappabianca, Salvatore ^a   Porto, Annamaria ^a   Petrillo, Mario ^a   Greco, Barbara ^a   Reginelli, Alfonso ^a   Ronza, Francesco ^a   Setola, Francesca ^a   Rossi, Giovanni ^b   Di Matteo, Andrea ^b   Muto, Roberto ^b   De Rimini, Maria Luisa ^b   Piccolo, Sergio ^b   Catalano, Mara ^b   Muto, Pietro ^b   De Rosa, Nicoletta ^b   Barra, Enrica ^b   De Rosa, Ilaria ^b   Antinolfi, Francesca ^b   Antinolfi, Giuseppe ^b   Caputi, Mario ^b   Brunese, Luca ^c   Grassi, Roberto ^a   Rotondo, Antonio ^a   more..

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b AORN Monaldi   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79151480834     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.076562     Document Type: Article

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