After six months of testing with no growth from the nodule, nobody thought it was cancer. But suddenly it incrementally grew, ...

SOLITARY pulmonary nodules have caused considerable concern ever since the advent of roentgenography made their detection possible during life. This concern has been heightened in recent years by t ...

where SPN is the solitary pulmonary nodule, e is the base of the natural logarithm, age indicates the patient's age in years; smoke indicates smoking history (1 = current or former smoker, 0 ...

Abstract 7073 Background: The multidisciplinary lung cancer group was established at the Memphis VA Hospital in 2000, and during the first 6 years we followed 1433 patients with suspicious pulmonary ...

A solitary lung nodule (SLN) is seen in 1 in 500 chest radiographs. Benign causes include infectious granulomas and hamartomas, and less commonly, rheumatoid nodules, intrapulmonary lymph nodes ...

A new study of more than 10,000 non-smoking adults found that solid lung nodules were present in a considerable portion of study participants. Non-smokers are traditionally thought to be at low ...

Multiple strategies are currently being used to manage patients who present with indeterminate solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN). We have used decision-analysis models to assess the cost-effectiveness ...

“By pre-plotting a path to the nodule that avoids the vasculature and navigating through the lung anatomy with three-dimensional, real-time, fluoroscopic guidance, the Archimedes System ...

Surgical Approaches to the Management of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules Indeterminate lung nodules that cannot be diagnosed by one of the above methods may require a surgical procedure that can be ...