A diagnostic program for patients suspected of having lung cancer

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 475-481

  Stigt, Jos A ^a   Uil, Steven M ^a   Oostdijk, Ad H ^a   Boers, James E ^a   Van Den Berg, Jan Willem K ^a   Groen, Harry J M ^b  

^a Isala Klinieken ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnostic organization; Equipment evaluations; Imaging; Lung cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84867532394     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: 19380690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cllc.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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