The solitary pulmonary nodule

Radiology

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-49

  Winer Muram, Helen T ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG NODULE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645122137     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2391050343     Document Type: Review

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