Patient-specific workup of adrenal incidentalomas
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Patient-specific workup of adrenal incidentalomas
PURPOSE : To develop a clinical prediction model to predict a clinically relevant adrenal disorder for patients with adrenal incidentaloma. MATERIALS AND METHODS : This retrospective study is approved by the institutional review board, with waiver of informed consent. Natural language processing is used for filtering of adrenal incidentaloma cases in all thoracic and abdominal CT reports from...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Radiology Open
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2352-0477
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejro.2017.08.002