Persistent pulmonary subsolid nodules with solid portions of 5 mm or smaller: Their natural course and predictors of interval growth

European Radiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1529-1537

  Lee, Jong Hyuk ^a   Park, Chang Min ^a,b,c   Lee, Sang Min ^d   Kim, Hyungjin ^a,e   McAdams, H Page ^c   Goo, Jin Mo ^a,b  

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

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^e Aerospace Medical Group   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma in situ; Computed tomography; Follow up studies; Lung adenocarcinoma; Portion size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PERSISTENT PULMONARY SUBSOLID NODULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA IN SITU; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA IN SITU; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942065609     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-015-4017-4     Document Type: Article

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