Longitudinal Study of Spatially Heterogeneous Emphysema Progression in Current Smokers with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoke is the main risk factor for emphysema, which is a key pathology in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Low attenuation areas (LAA) in computed tomography (CT) images reflect emphysema, and the cumulative size distribution of LAA clusters follows a power law char...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Tanabe, Naoya, Muro, Shigeo, Sato, Susumu, Tanaka, Shiro, Oguma, Tsuyoshi, Kiyokawa, Hirofumi, Takahashi, Tamaki, Kinose, Daisuke, Hoshino, Yuma, Kubo, Takeshi, Hirai, Toyohiro, Mishima, Michiaki
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Public Library of Science 2012
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445600/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23028728
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044993
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