Lung Cancer Imaging
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2013
XVI, 194 pages
978-1-60761-620-7 (ISBN)
Description
While specialists often guide the care to lung cancer patients, it is often a general radiologist who is left to interpret studies that impact patient care and management.
Lung Cancer Imaging
provides a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis, staging and overview of the management of lung cancer relevant to practicing radiologists so that they can better understand the decision making issues and provide more directed and useful communication to the treating physicians. It Primary Care physicians will also find this book valuable to understand the relevant issues that they face when one of their patients is being treated for lung cancer.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVI, 194 p. 105 illus., 31 illus. in color.
File size
8,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60761-620-7 (9781607616207)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-60761-620-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Content
Epidemiology/WHO Classification.- Screening for Lung Cancer.- Evaluation of the Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodule.- Diagnosis of Lung Cancer.- Non-invasive Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.- Novel Imaging Agents.- Invasive Staging of Non-small cell lung cancer.- Imaging of Small Cell Lung Cancer.- Interdisciplinary Management of Lung Cancer.- Pre-operative Evaluation for Resection.- Surgical Therapy for Lung Cancer.- Post-surgical Evaluation.- Radiofrequency Ablation.- Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer.- Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer.- Imaging following Radiation Therapy.- Evaluation of Therapeutic Response.- Imaging of Drug Toxicity.
