Clinical significance of lung nodules reported on abdominal CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 793-799

  Alpert, Jeffrey B ^a   Fantauzzi, John P ^a   Melamud, Kira ^a   Greenwood, Heather ^a   Naidich, David P ^a   Ko, Jane P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Lung nodules

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRONCHIAL WALL THICKENING; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHEST COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NODULE GROWTH; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; IOHEXOL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84859141596     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6621     Document Type: Article

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