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Conventional Computed Tomographic Calcium Scoring vs full chest CTCS for lung cancer screening: a cost-effectiveness analysis

BACKGROUND: Conventional CTCS images the mid/lower chest for coronary artery disease (CAD). Because many CAD patients are also at risk for lung malignancy, CTCS often discovers incidental pulmonary nodules (IPN). CTCS excludes the upper chest, where malignancy is common. Full-chest CTCS (FCT) may be...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Boxiang, Linden, Philip A., Gupta, Amit, Jarrett, Craig, Worrell, Stephanie G., Ho, Vanessa P., Perry, Yaron, Towe, Christopher W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32631384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-020-01221-8