Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Accurate assessment of disease extent is important in deciding the optimal treatment approach. To play an important role in the multidisciplinary management of lung cancer patients, it is necessary that the radiologist understands th...

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Autores principales: Purandare, Nilendu C, Rangarajan, Venkatesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Imaging in Oncology: Recent Advances
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25969634
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.155831
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description Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Accurate assessment of disease extent is important in deciding the optimal treatment approach. To play an important role in the multidisciplinary management of lung cancer patients, it is necessary that the radiologist understands the principles of staging and the implications of radiological findings on the various staging descriptors and eventual treatment decisions.
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spelling pubmed-44194202015-05-12 Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management Purandare, Nilendu C Rangarajan, Venkatesh Indian J Radiol Imaging Imaging in Oncology: Recent Advances Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Accurate assessment of disease extent is important in deciding the optimal treatment approach. To play an important role in the multidisciplinary management of lung cancer patients, it is necessary that the radiologist understands the principles of staging and the implications of radiological findings on the various staging descriptors and eventual treatment decisions. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4419420/ /pubmed/25969634 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.155831 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management
title Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management
title_full Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management
title_fullStr Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management
title_full_unstemmed Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management
title_short Imaging of lung cancer: Implications on staging and management
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topic Imaging in Oncology: Recent Advances
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