Screening for interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis: Performance of high-resolution CT with limited number of slices: A prospective study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2069-2073

  Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a   Winklehner, Anna ^a   Nguyen, Thi Dan Linh ^a   Dobrota, Rucsandra ^a,b   Baumueller, Stephan ^a   Maurer, Britta ^a   Distler, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MASS SCREENING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922238016     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-205637     Document Type: Article

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