Thin-section CT findings in peripheral lung cancer of 3cm or smaller: Are there any characteristic features for predicting tumor histology or do they depend only on tumor size

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 302-308

  Jiang, Binghu ^a,b   Takashima, Shodayu ^a   Miyake, Chie ^a   Hakucho, Tomoaki ^a   Takahashi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Morimoto, Daisuke ^a   Numasaki, Hodaka ^a   Nakanishi, Katsuyuki ^c   Tomita, Yasuhiko ^c   Higashiyama, Masahiko ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air bronchogram; Computed tomography; CT findings; Lung neoplasms

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELLS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; HISTOLOGY;

GROUND-GLASS OPACITY; LINEAR TRENDS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PERIPHERAL LUNG CANCERS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUBSOLID NODULE; THIN-SECTION CT; THIN-SECTION CT IMAGE;

TUMORS;

AGED; AIR BRONCHOGRAM; ARTICLE; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COARSE SPICULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBULATION; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PLEURAL TAG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; BRONCHOGRAPHY; CT FINDINGS; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AIR BRONCHOGRAM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT FINDINGS; LUNG NEOPLASMS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BRONCHOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84900795759     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0284185113495834     Document Type: Article

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