Imaging the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 161-178

  Alpert, Jeffrey B ^a   Lowry, Conor M ^a   Ko, Jane P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Lung cancer screening; PET CT; Pulmonary nodule; Screening chest CT; Solitary lung nodule; Solitary pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

AGE; ATTENUATION; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84930180519     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: 15578216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2015.02.003     Document Type: Review

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