Atoll sign or reversed halo sign? Which term should be used?

Thorax

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1009-1010

  Marchiori, Edson ^a,c   Irion, Klaus L ^b   Zanetti, Gláucia ^a   Hochhegger, Bruno ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOLL SIGN; BIOMEDICINE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVERSED HALO SIGN;

EID: 80054107147     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.155481     Document Type: Letter

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