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This chapter introduces the three pillars on which the diagnosis of lung disease on a chest CT is based: the recognition of the appearance pattern, the study of the location and distribution pattern of the abnormalities in the lung (distribution pattern) and the careful analysis of the patient data.
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Verschakelen, J.A., De Wever, W. (2018). How to Approach CT of the Lung?. In: Computed Tomography of the Lung. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39518-5_3
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