Size Measurement and T-staging of Lung Adenocarcinomas Manifesting as Solid Nodules ≤30 mm on CT: Radiology-Pathology Correlation

Academic Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 851-859

  Heidinger, Benedikt H ^a,b   Anderson, Kevin R ^c   Moriarty, Eoin M ^a   Costa, Daniel B ^a   Gangadharan, Sidhu P ^a   VanderLaan, Paul A ^c   Bankier, Alexander A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; Lung adenocarcinoma; radiology pathology correlation; size measurement; T staging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INTRAOBSERVER VARIABILITY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MEASUREMENT; MEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TUMOR VOLUME; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; ADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85013913406     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2017.01.009     Document Type: Article

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