Pulmonary nodules
British Thoracic Society quality standards for the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules
... solid pulmonary nodules and has been validated in a UK ...the pulmonary nodule to determine the risk of ...solid pulmonary nodules using qualitative assessment with an ordinal ...solid ...
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Review Article Sublobectomy involving the use of methylene blue staining combined with medical glue to locate small pulmonary nodules pre-operation
... (pGGO) nodules are ...of nodules cause dif- ficulties in finger palpation during VATS because of their small diameters, deep location or low density, which could affect operation mode, prolong operation ...
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Bronchoscopic Diagnosis of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules with the Use of NIR Spectroscopy
... NIR light is used routinely in numerous applications in modern medicine [9]. Our approach differed in using penetrated, instead of reflected, NIR radiation. We took into consideration the possibility of interference of ...
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Ground glass pulmonary nodules: their significance in oncology patients and the role of computer tomography and 18F–fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
... of pulmonary nodules (PN) consisting of solid tissue of undetermined significance and with a diameter less than or equal to 3 cm, is becoming relatively frequent, in both healthy patients (undergoing CT to ...
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Localization of nonpalpable pulmonary nodules using CT guided needle puncture
... However, several studies have reported that barium can pro- voke a mild acute inflammatory and edematous reaction and may make the pathological diagnosis difficult [9–11]. Radio-guided localization of pulmonary ...
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The practice of reporting pulmonary nodules as incidental findings in the radiology department at the ZGT
... for pulmonary perifissural nodules, PFN, also lead to the selection of reports that contained the abbreviation “PFNA”, which does not concern pulmonary ...of pulmonary nodules being ...
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Solitary pulmonary nodules detection based on dot filter and region growing
... The methods we proposed is the Dot-Filter and Region growing for the detection of solitary pulmonary nodules. Firstly, Two-dimensional dot-filter is constructed by using Two-dimensional Hessian matrix, and ...
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A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF PULMONARY NODULES IN LUNG CT IMAGES
... Lung cancer is a serious public health problem all around the world. The mortality rate for lung cancer is higher than other kinds of cancers and it is considered as the leading cause of deaths among both men and women ...
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Autonomous Detection and Classification of Pulmonary Nodules with Mobile Deployment
... Abstract: Pulmonary nodules are round oval shape growth found in the ...these nodules has severe effect on the patient. Detection of these nodules in the early stage can increase the rate of ...
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Detection of Pulmonary Nodules Using MTANN in Chest Radiographs
... for pulmonary nodule detection in chest radiographs are to detect the pulmonary nodules (lung nodules) that are overlapped by ribs and clavicles and to minimize the false positive results ...
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Role of Multi-Slice Computed Tomography Perfusion in Evaluation of the Pulmonary Nodules
... malignant pulmonary nodules in quantity and quality, Due to tumor angiogenesis, malignant pulmonary lesions has high regional blood flow, blood volume and consecutively ...of pulmonary ...
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Anatomy packing with hierarchical segments: an algorithm for segmentation of pulmonary nodules in CT images
... all pulmonary nodules detected on CT scans are classified into three groups [20]: solid nodule (homogenous soft-tissue attenu- ation), nonsolid nodule (hazy increased attenuation in the lung that does not ...
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Lung cancer CT screening: : psychological responses in the presence and absence of pulmonary nodules
... with pulmonary nodules on their first CT scan were compared to those without (classified as normal CT) at 3 and 6 months follow-up using random effects regression models to account for multiple observations ...
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Lung cancer CT screening: psychological responses in the presence and absence of pulmonary nodules
... after pulmonary nodules being found on screening CT ...of pulmonary nodules in the context of a screening programme and patients’ understanding of the results of both blood tests and CT scans, ...
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The Utilization of Consignable Multi Model in Detection and Classification of Pulmonary Nodules
... In this paper, the knowledge and preferences of doctors are used to strengthen the Consignable Multi-Model (CMM) algorithm, focusing on the limitations of existing diagnostics approaches for benign and malignant ...
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Severe Cushing’s syndrome and bilateral pulmonary nodules: beyond ectopic ACTH
... upper pulmonary lobe with 16 × 14 mm, along with multiple smaller solid images on both lung fields ...solid pulmonary lesions were 18F-FDG-PET positive ...
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Benign metastasizing leiomyoma presenting as multiple cystic pulmonary nodules: a case report
... bronchiectasis, pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), pulmonary Langer- hans cell histiocytosis (PLCH), and so on, since there are many more common causes than pulmonary ...
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Intravenous Injection of Pharmaceutical Tablets Presenting as Multiple Pulmonary Nodules and Declining Pulmonary Function in an Adolescent With Cystic Fibrosis
... Here we present the unusual case of an adolescent with cystic fibrosis presenting with declining pulmonary function and diffuse micronodular pulmonary disease. This case illustrates the radiographic and ...
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Original Article Percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy of very small pulmonary nodules
... Initial experiences suggested that CBCT-guided PTNB could be a useful, safe and accurate pro- cedure for diagnosis of indeterminate lung nodules, with possible advantages over fluoro- CT-guided biopsy [12, 15, ...
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Critical appraisal of pemetrexed in the treatment of NSCLC and metastatic pulmonary nodules
... Elderly patients benefit from second-line cytotoxic chemotherapy: a subset analysis of a randomized phase III trial of pemetrexed compared with docetaxel in patients with previousl[r] ...
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