Management of the Peripheral Small Ground-Glass Opacities

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-201

  Yoshida, Junji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG GROUND GLASS OPACITY; LUNG LAVAGE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, BRONCHIOLO-ALVEOLAR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249860110     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2007.03.010     Document Type: Review

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