Tools used in the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer: What's old and what's new?

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 443-448

  Currie, Graeme P ^a   Kennedy, A M ^a   Denison, A R ^b  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TRANSOESOPHAGEAL ULTRASOUND NEEDLE ASPIRATION;

EID: 67650495843     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcp038     Document Type: Review

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