Clear vision through the haze: A practical approach to ground-glass opacity

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 140-158

  El Sherief, Ahmed H ^a   Gilman, Matthew D ^b   Healey, Terrance T ^c   Tambouret, Rosemary H ^b   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^b   Abbott, Gerald F ^b   Wu, Carol C ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATYPICAL ADENOMATOUS HYPERPLASIA; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRAZY PAVING; DESQUAMATIVE PNEUMONIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HALO SIGN; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG CYST; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG LESION; LYMPHOCYTIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MOSAIC ATTENUATION; MULTIFOCAL MICRONODULAR PNEUMOCYTE HYPERPLASIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMATOSIS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RESPIRATORY BRONCHIOLITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOGRAPHY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BRONCHOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PULMONARY EDEMA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84899699253     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: 15356302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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