The probability of malignancy in small pulmonary nodules coexisting with potentially operable lung cancer detected by CT

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2447-2453

  Yuan, Yue ^a   Matsumoto, Tsuneo ^a   Hiyama, Atsuto ^a   Miura, Goji ^a   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Emoto, Takuya ^a   Kawamura, Takeo ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coexisting small pulmonary nodule; Computed tomography; Diagnosis; Lung cancer; Synchronous lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0242691676     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-1905-9     Document Type: Article

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