Differentiating between subsolid and solid pulmonary nodules at CT: Inter- and intraobserver agreement between experienced thoracic radiologists

Radiology

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 888-896

  Ridge, Carole A ^a   Yildirim, Afra ^b   Boiselle, Phillip M ^c   Franquet, Tomas ^d   Schaefer Prokop, Cornelia M ^e,f   Tack, Denis ^g   Gevenois, Pierre Alain ^h   Bankier, Alexander A ^c  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^e MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g Clinique Louis Caty   (Belgium)

^h ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID PULMONARY NODULE; SUBSOLID PULMONARY NODULE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84959449611     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2015150714     Document Type: Article

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