Does the availability of positron emission tomography modify diagnostic strategies for solitary pulmonary nodules? An observational study in France

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lemonnier, Irawati ^a,b   Baumann, Cédric ^a,b   Jay, Nicolas ^a,c   Alzahouri, Kazem ^a,b   Arveux, Patrick ^d   Jolly, Damien ^e,f   Lejeune, Catherine ^g   Velten, Michel ^h   Vitry, Fabien ^e   Woronoff Lemsi, Marie Christine ⁱ   Guillemin, Francis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^c Lorraine Laboratory of Informatics Technology Research and its Applications   (France)

^d Georges Francois Leclerc Center   (France)

^e HÔPITAL MAISON BLANCHE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FRANCE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

AGED; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66749103812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-139     Document Type: Article

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