Significance of non-calcified pulmonary nodules in patients with extrapulmonary cancers

Thorax

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 331-336

  Khokhar, S ^a   Vickers, A ^a   Moore, M S ^a   Mironov, S ^a   Stover, D E ^a   Feinstein, M B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAPULMONARY CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON CALCIFIED LUNG NODULE; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOBACCO; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BIOPSY; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645555667     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2005.051508     Document Type: Article

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