Return of the pulmonary nodule: The radiologist's key role in implementing the 2015 BTS guidelines on the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 89, Issue 1059, 2016, Pages

  Graham, Richard N J ^a   Baldwin, David R ^b   Callister, Matthew E J ^c   Gleeson, Fergus V ^d  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITALS BATH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84976625498     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20150776     Document Type: Review

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