Solitary pulmonary nodules are a common finding on chest radiography and CT. We present the case of an asymptomatic 59-year-old male found to have a 13 mm left upper lobe nodule on CT scan. The patient was asymptomatic and the CT was performed to follow up mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy that had been stable on several previous CT scans. He had a history of emphysema and reported a 15 pac...

UNLABELLED Patients presenting with a solitary pulmonary nodule are often a serious diagnostic-therapeutic problem. The AIM of the present report is to share our experience with VATS in the diagnostics and therapy of patients with solitary pulmonary nodules. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between 2005 and 2009 we performed primary videothoracoscopic tumor resection in 125 patients with peripheral lung ...

Abstract Background To evaluate the feasibility and safety of microcoil in simultaneous localization for multiple pulmonary nodules before video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). Methods Twenty-eight consecutive patients (26 two-nodule, 2 three-nodule; 58 total; Group A) underwent CT-guided VATS using microcoil. Successful targeting, localization, were defined as implantation at target site on ...

PURPOSE To prospectively assess the precision of semiautomated volume measurements of pulmonary nodules at low-dose multi-detector row computed tomography (CT) and to investigate the influence of nodule size, segmentation algorithm, and inspiration level. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study had institutional review board approval; written informed consent was obtained from all patients. Between ...

A solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) is radiologically defined as an intraparenchymal lung lesion that is < 3 cm in diameter and is not associated with atelectasis or adenopathy. Lung lesions > 3 cm in size are defined as lung masses. A solitary pulmonary nodule is noted on 0.09 to 0.20 per cent of all chest radiographs. An estimated 150,000 such nodules are identified each year. Ninety per cent o...