Evaluation and management of pulmonary nodules: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 629-644

  Sayyouh, Mohamed ^a   Vummidi, Dharshan R ^a   Kazerooni, Ella A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization; Detection; Diagnosis; Nodule; Pulmonary; Screening

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; MICRORNA; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; RADON; URANIUM;

BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESORPTION; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FAMILY HISTORY; GROUND PULMONARY NODULE; GROWTH RATE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IONIZATION; LASER; LUNG ASPIRATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SOLID PULMONARY NODULE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84887304369     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2013.858117     Document Type: Review

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