Nodular pulmonary ossifications in differential diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodules

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 966-968

  Gielis, J ^a   Torfs, M ^a   Luijks, M ^a   Salgado, R ^a   Van Schil, Paul E ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELPHALAN;

AGED; ANTHRACOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRONCHIOLES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953696848     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00134110     Document Type: Letter

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