A proposed diagnostic approach to the patient with the subcentimeter pulmonary nodule: Techniques that facilitate video-assisted thoracic surgery excision

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-122

  Daniel, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Subcentimeter pulmonary nodules; Thoracoscopic surgery; VATS

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; TRACER;

AWARENESS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REVIEW; SURGEON; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY;

CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 23744487307     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2005.05.001     Document Type: Review

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