Transient subsolid nodules in patients with extrapulmonary malignancies: Their frequency and differential features

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 428-437

  Choi, Won Seok ^a   Park, Chang Min ^a   Song, Yong Sub ^a   Lee, Sang Min ^a   Wi, Jae Yeon ^a   Goo, Jin Mo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

extrapulmonary malignancies; Subsolid nodule; transient nodule

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL FEATURES; DETECTION MODE; EXTRAPULMONARY MALIGNANCIES; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIOS; SUBSOLID NODULE; THIN SECTION; THIN-SECTION CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CHONDROSARCOMA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; EWING SARCOMA; EXTRAPULMONARY MALIGNANCY; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA; MYXOFIBROSARCOMA; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TESTIS CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VERY ELDERLY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SECONDARY; SOUTH KOREA;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84929515692     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0284185114528325     Document Type: Article

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