Carlesi, Edoardo
Orlandi, Martina
Mencarini, Jessica
Bartalesi, Filippo
Lorini, Chiara
Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo
Macconi, Letizia
Selvi, Valeria
Bartoloni, Alessandro
Colagrande, Stefano
Article History
Received: 21 September 2018
Accepted: 25 April 2019
First Online: 13 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they do not have conflict of interest.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. On 28 May 2018, the study obtained the approval of the Local Ethics Committee (protocol #12819).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All patients had provided their written informed consent for submission of their chest CT and, if necessary, of an iodinated contrast agent, according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Patient privacy was maintained (the reviewers knew only the code of the anonymized DICOM files), and patient care was not impacted.