Standard report terms for chest computed tomography reports of anterior mediastinal masses suspicious for thymoma

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 7 SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Marom, Edith M ^a   Rosado De Christenson, Melissa L ^b,c   Bruzzi, John F ^d   Hara, Masaki ^e   Sonett, Joshua R ^f   Ketai, Loren ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c Department of Radiology   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^e NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Staging; Structured reporting; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CANCER INVASION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; METASTASIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX EXAMINATION; THYMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 79959816567     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e31821e8cd6     Document Type: Article

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