Differential diagnosis between benign and malignant pleural effusion with dual-energy spectral CT

Xirong Zhang; Haifeng Duan; Yong Yu; Chunling Ma; Zhanli Ren; Yuxin Lei; Taiping He; Ming Zhang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193714

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Differential diagnosis between benign and malignant pleural effusion with dual-energy spectral CT

Xirong Zhang,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’An Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi’An city, Shaanxi Prov, China, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China, Department of Medical Techniques, Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Haifeng Duan,

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: Department of Medical Imaging, Fu No.2,Weiyangxi Road,Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Yong Yu,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Chunling Ma,

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Zhanli Ren,

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Yuxin Lei,

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Taiping He ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Taiping He, Ming Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zhangming01@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (MZ); htpkeyan@163.com (TH)

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese medicine, Xianyang city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Ming Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Taiping He, Ming Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zhangming01@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (MZ); htpkeyan@163.com (TH)

Affiliation Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’An Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi’An city, Shaanxi Prov, China
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Differential diagnosis between benign and malignant pleural effusion with dual-energy spectral CT

Xirong Zhang,
Haifeng Duan,
Yong Yu,
Chunling Ma,
Zhanli Ren,
Yuxin Lei,
Taiping He,
Ming Zhang

Published: April 11, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193714

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Moncada's Manoeuvre is relaibleakso in differential diagnosis between benign and malignant pleural effusion. Posted by Stagnaro on 03 Sep 2018 at 13:00 GMT

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