Pulmonary perifissural nodules on CT scans: Rapid growth is not a predictor of malignancy

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 611-616

  De Hoop, Bartjan ^a,b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^c,d   Gietema, Hester ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^b,d  

^a RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SMOKING; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84867911435     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12112351     Document Type: Article

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