The Dubious Value of Coronary Calcium Scoring on Lung Cancer Screening CT

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 343-344

  Bernheim, Adam ^a   Auffermann, William F ^a   Stillman, Arthur E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE RISK PATIENT; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG TUMOR; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85001055653     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2016.08.011     Document Type: Note

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