Size and Growth Assessment of Pulmonary Nodules: Consequences of the Rounding

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 657-662

  Li, Kunwei ^a,b   Yip, Rowena ^a   Avila, Ricardo ^c   Henschke, Claudia I ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THE FIFTH AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Accumetra LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

False positive; Lung cancer screening; Measurement error; Nodule growth assessment; Rounding; Volume doubling time (VDT)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NODULE GROWTH; NODULE SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; LUNG TUMOR; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85015887781     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2016.12.010     Document Type: Article

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