High resolution spiral CT for determining the malignant potential of solitary pulmonary nodules: refining and testing the test | Zendy

Stefan Walbom Harders | Zendy; H Madsen | Zendy; Torben Riis Rasmussen | Zendy; Henrik Hager | Zendy; Finn Rasmussen | Zendy

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High resolution spiral CT for determining the malignant potential of solitary pulmonary nodules: refining and testing the test

Author(s) -

Stefan Walbom Harders,

H Madsen,

Torben Riis Rasmussen,

Henrik Hager,

Finn Rasmussen

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

acta radiologica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.579

H-Index - 72

eISSN - 1600-0455

pISSN - 0284-1851

DOI - 10.1258/ar.2011.100377

Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , reproducibility , radiology , lung cancer , calcification , spiral computed tomography , nodule (geology) , high resolution computed tomography , nuclear medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , histopathology , pathology , computed tomography , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology

A solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) may represent early stage lung cancer. Lung cancer is a devastating disease with an overall 5-year mortality rate of approximately 84% but with early detection and surgery as low as 47%. Currently a contrast-enhanced multiple-row detector CT (MDCT) scan is the first examination when evaluating patients with suspected lung cancer.

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