Pulmonary Hypertension and the Quantification of Lung Density on Chest CT: "I Know It When I See It."

Robert H Brown1

  • 1Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD; Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD; Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Room E7614, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205.

Academic Radiology
|June 15, 2016
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