Overview and strategic management of subsolid pulmonary nodules

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 240-248

  Godoy, Myrna C B ^a   Naidich, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Adenocarcinoma in situ; Bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma; Ground glass nodule; Ground glass opacities; Lung Cancer; Lung cancer screening; Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma; Multidetector computed tomography; Pulmonary nodule; Subsolid nodule

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; GROUND GLASS NODULE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSOLID PULMONARY NODULE; ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

ADENOCARCINOMA; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871475802     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: 15360237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e31825d515b     Document Type: Conference Paper

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