The challenge of solitary pulmonary nodules: HRCT evaluation

✍ Scribed by Giuseppe Potente; Valter Iacari; Massimo Caimi

• Book ID: 104350600
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 807 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-6111
• DOI: 10.1016/s0895-6111(96)00071-7

✦ Synopsis

Using 20 HU as a threshold for positivity of the contrast test, our sensitivity was lOO%, specifkity was 74%, positive predictive value was 89.5%, negative predictive value was lOO%, and accuracy was 92%; test bias was 1.118.

In OQT qhion, HRCT evaluation of SPNs is the most widely available tool to save cost and decline ia morbidity ia management.