The solitary pulmonary nodule

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 2535-2542

  Ost, David ^a,b   Fein, Alan M ^a,c   Feinsilver, Steven H ^b  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; SMOKING; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037865723     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp012290     Document Type: Review

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