Should CT play a greater role in preventing the resection of granulomas in the era of PET?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 795-800

  May, Benjamin J ^a,b   Levsky, Jeffrey M ^a   Godelman, Alla ^a   Jain, Vineet R ^a   Little, Brent P ^a,c   Mahadevia, Panna S ^a   Burton, William B ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchogenic carcinoma; CT; Granuloma; PET; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GRANULOMA; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79957874367     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5190     Document Type: Article

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