Diagnostic Approach to Pulmonary Nodules in the Postpneumonectomy Patient

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 345-348

  Quinn, Curtis C ^a  

^a Waukesha Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC NAVIGATION BRONCHOSCOPY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION; TUMOR REGRESSION;

AGED; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955520458     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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