Multidisciplinary management of the solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN): Our opinion;La gestione multidisciplinare del nodulo polmonare solitario (NPS): La nostra opinione

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 149-155

  Schiavon, Francesco ^a   Berletti, Riccardo ^a   Soardi, Gian Alberto ^b   Muzzolon, Rodolfo ^a   Sforza, Nicola ^a   Nardini, Stefano ^c   D'Ambros, Gianmarcello ^a  

^a SAN MARTINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b BORGO TRENTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UOA di Broncopneumologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27944468747     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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