Approach to the patient with multiple lung nodules

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 257-266

  Shrager, Joseph B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma in situ; Ground glass opacity; Lepidic predominant adenocarcinoma; Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma; Multifocal lung cancer; Non small cell lung cancer; Synchronous primary lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WEDGE RESECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES;

EID: 84875890445     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2013.01.004     Document Type: Review

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