Lung nodules in pediatric oncology patients: A prediction rule for when to biopsy

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 833-837

  Murrell, Zaria ^a   Dickie, Belinda ^a   Dasgupta, Roshni ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT scan; Metastasectomy; Prediction rule; Pulmonary metastases; Thoracoscopy; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ATELECTASIS; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GRANULOMATOSIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

BIOPSY; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 79957543964     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2011.02.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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