Subsolid pulmonary nodule management and lung adenocarcinoma classification: State of the art and future trends

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 295-307

  Godoy, Myrna C B ^a   Truong, Mylene T ^a   Sabloff, Bradley ^a   Naidich, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; TREND STUDY; TUMOR INVASION; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884151470     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: 15584658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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