Management of SPN in France. Pathways for definitive diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodule: A multicentre study in 18 French districts

BMC Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Alzahouri, Kazem ^a,b   Velten, Michel ^c   Arveux, Patrick ^d   Woronoff Lemsi, Marie Christine ^e   Jolly, Damien ^f   Guillemin, Francis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^c CENTRE PAUL STRAUSS   (France)

^d CENTRE GEORGES FRANÇOIS LECLERC   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^f REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTION; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43149121987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-93     Document Type: Article

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