Screening for interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis: The diagnostic accuracy of HRCT image series with high increment and reduced number of slices

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 549-552

  Winklehner, Anna ^a   Berger, Nicole ^a   Maurer, Britta ^a   Distler, Oliver ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MALE; POLYMYOSITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857910558     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-200564     Document Type: Article

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