Difficulties encountered managing nodules detected during a computed tomography lung cancer screening program

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 611-617

  Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a,b   Scanagatta, Paolo ^a   Preda, Lorenzo ^a   Rampinelli, Cristiano ^a   Guarize, Juliana ^a   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Leo, Francesco ^a   Solli, Piergiorgio ^a   Masullo, Michele ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 52049123321     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.02.082     Document Type: Article

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