How to deal with incidentally detected pulmonary nodules less than 10 mm in size on CT in a healthy person

Lung Cancer

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-159

  van't Westeinde, Susan C ^a   de Koning, Harry J ^a   Xu, Dong Ming ^b   Hoogsteden, Henk C ^a   van Klaveren, Rob J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Follow up recommendations; Incidentally detected; Lung cancer; Management; Multi detector CT; Pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG NODULE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42749084162     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2008.01.020     Document Type: Review

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