Incidental, subsolid pulmonary nodules at CT: Etiology and management

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 365-373

  Seidelman, Jessica L ^a   Myers, Jeffrey L ^a   Quint, Leslie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest CT; Ground glass nodule; Lung adenocarcinoma; Part solid nodule; Subsolid nodule

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADENOCARCINOMA IN SITU; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INVASIVE ADENOCARCINOMA; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE ADENOCARCINOMA; REVIEW; SUBSOLID NODULE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEDGE RESECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84885633032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2013.9025     Document Type: Review

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