Extrapulmonary Findings and Malignancies in Participants Screened With Chest CT in the National Lung Screening Trial

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 324-330

  Nguyen, Xuan V ^a   Davies, Louise ^b,c,d   Eastwood, James D ^e   Hoang, Jenny K ^e  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

incidental findings; low dose CT; lung cancer screening; National Lung Screening Trial

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CANCER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG NEOPLASMS; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85014073397     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2016.09.044     Document Type: Article

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