Management of ground-glass opacities: Should all pulmonary lesions with ground-glass opacity be surgically resected?

Translational Lung Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 354-363

  Kobayashi, Yoshihisa ^a   Mitsudomi, Tetsuya ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Follow up; Ground glass opacity (GGO); Limited surgery; Lung cancer; Small lung lesion; Volume doubling time (VDT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922561517     PISSN: 22186751     EISSN: 22264477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2218-6751.2013.09.03     Document Type: Review

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