Invasiveness and malignant potential of pulmonary lesions presenting as pure ground-glass opacities

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 347-352

  Ichinose, Junji ^a   Kohno, Tadasu ^a   Fujimori, Sakashi ^a   Harano, Takashi ^a   Suzuki, Souichiro ^a   Fujii, Takeshi ^a  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma in situ; Ground glass opacity; High resolution computed tomography; Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CASE REPORT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG RESECTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; ODDS RATIO; PLEURA; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84907985941     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: 21861005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5761/atcs.oa.13-00005     Document Type: Article

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