Pulmonary nodule follow-up: be careful with volumetry between contrast enhanced and unenhanced CT

Firdaus A Mohamed Hoesein; Metin Bülbül; Pim A de Jong

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Pulmonary nodule follow-up: be careful with volumetry between contrast enhanced and unenhanced CT

Firdaus A Mohamed Hoesein, Metin Bülbül, Pim A de Jong

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Abstract

Incident pulmonary nodules are a frequent finding on chest computed tomography (CT) of the lungs requiring follow-up. This case illustrates the importance of taking differences in CT scanning techniques (contrast versus non-contrast enhanced) into account. Comparing nodule size on unenhanced follow-up CT's with initial contrast-enhanced CT may consequently underestimate growth and mask malignant growth rates as demonstrated by our case report.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	346
Journal	Annals of Translational Medicine
Volume	4
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21037/atm.2016.08.43
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016

Keywords

Computed tomography (CT)
follow-up
lung cancer
nodule
volumetry

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