Lung Adenocarcinoma Manifesting as Pure Ground-Glass Nodules: Correlating CT Size, Volume, Density, and Roundness with Histopathologic Invasion and Size

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1288-1298

  Heidinger, Benedikt H ^a,b   Anderson, Kevin R ^a   Nemec, Ursula ^a,b   Costa, Daniel B ^a   Gangadharan, Sidhu P ^a   VanderLaan, Paul A ^a   Bankier, Alexander A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Lung adenocarcinoma; Pure ground glass nodule; Radiologic pathologic correlation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULE DENSITY; NODULE DIAMETER; NODULE VOLUME; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85030112640     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.05.017     Document Type: Article

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