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Caroline Chiles

Researcher at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Publications -  103
Citations -  5689

Caroline Chiles is an academic researcher from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lung cancer screening & Lung cancer. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 98 publications receiving 4752 citations. Previous affiliations of Caroline Chiles include Toronto General Hospital & Wake Forest University.

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The national lung screening trial: Overview and study design

Constantine A. Gatsonis, +1336 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
TL;DR: The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) is a randomized multicenter study comparing low-dose helical computed tomography with chest radiography in the screening of older current and former heavy smokers for early detection of lung cancer.
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Overdiagnosis in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer

TL;DR: More than 18% of all lung cancers detected by LDCT in the NLST seem to be indolent, and overdiagnosis should be considered when describing the risks of LDCT screening for lung cancer.
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Metastatic Involvement of the Heart and Pericardium: CT and MR Imaging

TL;DR: In this paper, pericardial effusion was found to be associated with a poor prognosis of metastatic cancer in the heart and pericardiomethography (PET) images.

Metastatic Involvement of the Heart and Pericardium: CT and

TL;DR: The clinical presentation includes shortness of breath, which may be out of proportion to radiographic findings in patients with pericardial effusion or may be the result of associated pleural effusion.
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Transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy: variables that affect risk of pneumothorax.

TL;DR: Smaller lesion size and emphysema are strongly correlated with occurrence of pneumothorax, and chest tube placements were related to the presence of emphySEma.