Is there an ideal diagnostic algorithm in solitary pulmonary nodules?

Respiration

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 587-589

  Ambrosini, Valentina ^a   Rubello, Domenico ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b S MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; SOMATOSTATIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33749247398     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094236     Document Type: Editorial

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