Managing the small pulmonary nodule discovered by CT

Chest

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1522-1529

  Libby, Daniel M ^a,b   Smith, James P ^a   Altorki, Nasser K ^a   Pasmantier, Mark W ^a   Yankelevitz, David ^a   Henschke, Claudia I ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT detected pulmonary nodule; Early lung cancer detection; Management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OCCUPATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 9344257538     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.125.4.1522     Document Type: Article

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