title: The solitary pulmonary nodule and staging of lung cancer.
abstract: More favorable survival rates are encountered when a bronchogenic carcinoma is identified and resected at the asymptomatic, small, circumscribed, nodular stage. The only two reliable radiologic criteria for benignity are the long-term absence of growth and certain characteristic patterns of calcification. With the advent of computed tomography, the preoperative radiographic staging of non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma can accurately select those patients for potential surgical care.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010178:Pancoast Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed