For the assessment of solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs), a chest computed tomography
(CT) is often performed as a combination of a nonenhanced and an enhanced scan. A …

AIM: To highlight the variation in clinical manifestations, imaging and management of four
cases of unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis presenting in adulthood. METHOD: Four …

A joint initiative by the British Thoracic Society and the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in
Great Britain and Ireland was undertaken to update the 2001 guidelines for the selection …

Background This section of the guidelines is intended to provide an evidence-based
approach to the preoperative physiologic assessment of a patient being considered for …

The preoperative physiologic assessment of a patient being considered for surgical
resection of lung cancer must consider the immediate perioperative risks from comorbid …

OBJECTIVES To clarify differences in postoperative changes in systemic and regional
pulmonary functions between segmentectomy and lobectomy in patients with lung cancer …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Qualitätsindikatoren wurden durch Sens et al. wie folgt definiert:„Ein Indikator ist ein
quantitatives Maß, welches zum Monitoring und zur Bewertung der Qualität wichtiger …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to prospectively compare the utility of dynamic
contrast-enhanced perfusion MRI in the prediction of postoperative lung function in patients …