supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (81200936, 81372707);Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (12JC1401800)
Background: Effective methods for managing patients with solitary pulmonary nodules(SPNs) depend critically on the predictive probability of malignancy.Methods: Between July 2009 and June 2011, data on gender, age...
Lung cancer is one of the most common neoplasms worldwide and a major cause of cancer death.Rapid diagnosis and accurate staging for patients with suspected lung cancer are essential to appropriate treatment.However,m...
D2 radical gastrectomy is the standard procedure for gastric cancer in the middle or upper part of the stomach. According to the latest Japanese treatment guidelines for gastric cancer, dissection of the splenic hilar...
CT guided percutaneous transthoracic fine needle aspiration biopsy (PTFNAB) was performed in twenty four sputum negative cases of small peripheral pulmonary lesions smaller than 2 cm in diameter, which are not easi...