Limited Utility of Pulmonary Nodule Risk Calculators for Managing Large Nodules

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 23-27

  Hammer, Mark M ^a   Nachiappan, Arun C ^b   Barbosa, Eduardo J Mortani ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN NEOPLASM; BROCK UNIVERSITY MODEL; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MIDDLE AGED; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; BIOPSY; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 85019721309     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: 15356302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2017.04.003     Document Type: Article

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