Reversed halo sign on computed tomography: State-of-the-art review

Lung

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 389-394

  Marchiori, Edson ^a   Zanetti, Gláucia ^a   Hochhegger, Bruno ^a   Irion, Klaus L ^b   Carvalho, Antonio Carlos Pires ^a   Godoy, Myrna C B ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary diseases; Reversed halo sign

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVERSED HALO SIGN; REVIEW; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; PNEUMONIA; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84864374886     PISSN: 03412040     EISSN: 14321750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00408-012-9392-x     Document Type: Review

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