The long-term course of ground-glass opacities detected on thin-section computed tomography

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 904-910

  Lee, Sei Won ^a,b   Leem, Cho Sun ^b   Kim, Tae Jung ^a   Lee, Kyung Won ^a   Chung, Jin Haeng ^a   Jheon, Sanghoon ^a   Lee, Jae Ho ^a,c   Lee, Choon Taek ^a,c  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Follow up; Ground glass opacity (GGO); Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RISK FACTOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84877580423     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2013.02.014     Document Type: Article

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