A prospective study to determine the incidence of non-imaged malignant pulmonary nodules in patients who undergo metastasectomy by thoracotomy with lung palpation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1696-1701

  Cerfolio, Robert J ^a   Bryant, Ayesha S ^a   McCarty, Todd P ^b   Minnich, Douglas J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALPATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 79957713824     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.075     Document Type: Article

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