Academic Radiology
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 75-83 , January 2010

HRCT Features of Small Peripheral Lung Carcinomas Detected in a Low-dose CT Screening Program

  • Shusuke Sone, MD

      Affiliations

    • JA Nagano Azumi General Hospital, Ikeda, Nagano, Japan (present affiliation: Nagano Health Promotion Corporation, Inasato, Nagano 381-2298, Japan)
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: S.S.
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  • Toru Matsumoto, BS, PhD

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage, Chiba, Japan
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  • Takayuki Honda, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Kenji Tsushima, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Fumiyoshi Takayama, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, JA Nagano Azumi General Hospital, Ikeda, Nagano, Japan (present affiliation: Ichinose Neurosurgery Hospital, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan)
    • ,
  • Takaomi Hanaoka, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chest Surgery, JA Nagano Azumi General Hospital, Ikeda, Nagano, Japan
    • ,
  • Ryoichi Kondo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Masayuki Haniuda, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Chest Surgery, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute-cho, Aichi, Japan

Received 30 June 2009 ,Accepted 28 July 2009.

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 Follow-up studies of the subjects in the computed tomography screening program was supported in part by a Gant-in-Aid for Cancer Research from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan (Third Term Comprehensive Control Research for Cancer; No 16271201).

PII: S1076-6332(09)00447-4

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.08.003

Academic Radiology
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 75-83 , January 2010

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