Pulmonary emphysema: comparison of preoperative quantitative CT and physiologic index values with clinical outcome after lung-volume reduction surgery. - Concepedia

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Pulmonary emphysema: comparison of preoperative quantitative CT and physiologic index values with clinical outcome after lung-volume reduction surgery.

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1997

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David S. Gierada, Richard M. Slone, Kyungsoo Bae, Roger D. Yusen, S S Lefrak, Jonathan D. Cooper

Abstract

In emphysema, quantitative CT values correlate with outcome. Quantitative assessment of emphysema in candidates for lung-volume reduction surgery is potentially useful.