Role of Positron Emission Tomography Scanning in the Management of Lung Nodules Detected at Baseline Computed Tomography Screening

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 959-966

  Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a,b   Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Paganelli, Giovanni ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Scanagatta, Paolo ^a   Leo, Francesco ^a   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^a   Travaini, Laura ^a   Rampinelli, Cristiano ^a   Trifirò, Giuseppe ^a   Sonzogni, Angelica ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34548008355     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.058     Document Type: Article

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