A new, simple method for estimating pleural effusion size on CT scans

Chest

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1054-1059

  Moy, Matthew P ^a,b   Levsky, Jeffrey M ^a   Berko, Netanel S ^a   Godelman, Alla ^a   Jain, Vineet R ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOCENTESIS;

EID: 84875992358     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-1292     Document Type: Article

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