Lung cancer at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia: A four-year prospective study of clinical, pathological, radiological, bronchoscopic, and biochemical parameters

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-36

  Alamoudi, Omer S ^a  

^a KING ABDUL AZIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Large cell carcinoma; Lung cancer; Saudi Arabia; Small cell carcinoma; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; CANCER PATIENT; CELL TYPE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SMOKING; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 77649169782     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.58957     Document Type: Article

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