Common and uncommon manifestations of Wegener granulomatosis at chest CT: Radiologic-pathologic correlation

Radiographics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-69

  Martinez, Felipe ^a   Chung, Jonathan H ^a   Digumarthy, Subba R ^a   Kanne, Jeffrey P ^b   Abbott, Gerald F ^a   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^a   Mark, Eugene J ^a   Sharma, Amita ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RARE DISEASE; STATISTICS; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RARE DISEASES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THORACIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 84863397754     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.321115060     Document Type: Article

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