An update on the evaluation and management of small pulmonary nodules

Future Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 855-865

  Furman, Alexandre M ^a   Dit Yafawi, Jihane Zaza ^a   Soubani, Ayman O ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ground glass opacities; incidental finding; lung biopsy; lung neoplasm; risk prediction; small pulmonary nodule etiology; small pulmonary nodule follow up; small pulmonary nodule radiology; small pulmonary nodule risk stratification; tomography

Indexed keywords

AGE; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG NODULE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGING; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE;

EID: 84878496094     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.13.17     Document Type: Review

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