Temperature differences are associated with malignancy on lung lesions: A clinical study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Chrysohoou, Christina ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Passalidou, Elisabeth ^b   Katsi, Vasiliki ^a   Polychronopoulos, Vlassios ^b   Toutouzas, Pavlos K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CALCULATION; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA; CATHETERIZATION; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; TEMPERATURE;

AGED; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042838708     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-3-1     Document Type: Article

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