Pulmonary nodule;Il nodulo polmonare

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 294-316

  Feragalli, Beatrice ^a,c   Guido, Francesca ^a   Larici, Anna Rita ^a   Storto, Maria Luigia ^a   Bonomo, Lorenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Radiologia di Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Roma   (Italy)

^c Ospedale SS Annunziata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostic workup; Lung cancer; Multislice CT; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29744436479     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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