Bone scanning in lung cancer: Pretest probability is of value

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 329, Issue 7459, 2004, Pages

  Puglisi, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; BONE TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; NOTE; SCINTISCANNING;

BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85044700349     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.231     Document Type: Letter

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