Bronchial wall measurements in patients after lung transplantation: evaluation of the diagnostic value for the diagnosis of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome.

Bronchial wall measurements in patients after lung transplantation: evaluation of the diagnostic value for the diagnosis of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome.

OBJECTIVES: To prospectively evaluate quantitative airway wall measurements of thin-section CT for the diagnosis of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome (BOS) following lung transplantation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 141 CT examinations, bronchial wall thickness (WT), the wall area percentage (WA%) cal...

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Main Authors: Sabine Dettmer, Lars Peters, Claudia de Wall, Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop, Michael Schmidt, Gregor Warnecke, Jens Gottlieb, Frank Wacker, Hoen-oh Shin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3979715?pdf=render

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