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3526399

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-9-18
pubmed:abstractText
The authors undertook a clinical study to determine the accuracy of dual-energy digital radiography in revealing nodule calcification because calcification in a pulmonary nodule almost excludes the possibility of malignancy. Over a 6-month period, 61 patients with pulmonary nodules (less than or equal to 3 cm) or masses (greater than 3 cm) were examined on a prototype scanned projection unit using a dual-energy detector. In 49 of 61 patients, nodules were noncalcified, and in 12, they were calcified. In 57 patients, the benignancy or malignancy of nodules was established beyond reasonable doubt by pathologic confirmation in 38 and by strong inference in 19 (four patients with noncalcified solitary pulmonary nodules either refused further investigation or surgery or their follow-up was too short to permit exclusion of malignancy). Dual-energy radiography was found to be highly accurate in assessing the presence or absence of calcification in pulmonary nodules and thus in determining their benignancy or possible malignancy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0033-8419
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
160
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
595-601
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Calcification in pulmonary nodules: detection with dual-energy digital radiography.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study