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Radioguided Surgery of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules

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Radioguided Surgery

Abstract

A solitary pulmonary nodule is radiologically defined as an intraparenchymal lung lesion smaller than 3 cm in diameter, not associated with atelectasis or with abnormally enlarged lymph nodes (1). More than 150,000 patients per year in the United States present their physicians with the diagnostic dilemma of a solitary pulmonary nodule, and this number has increased further due to incidental findings of lung nodules discovered on computed tomography (CT) of the chest performed for some unrelated medical reason (2).

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Boni, G., Melfi, F.M.A., Manca, G., Lucchi, M., Mussi, A., Mariani, G. (2008). Radioguided Surgery of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules. In: Mariani, G., Giuliano, A.E., Strauss, H.W. (eds) Radioguided Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38327-9_25

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