Reply: PET for the evaluation of solitary pulmonary nodules

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 326-327

  Fletcher, James W ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LUNG NODULE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 59249094218     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.056093     Document Type: Letter

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3. Gould MK, Sanders GD, Barnett PG, et al. Cost-effectiveness of alternative management strategies for patients with solitary pulmonary nodules. Ann Intern Med. 2003;138:724-735.