Open AccessIncidence, Correlates, and Chest Radiographic Yield of New Lung Cancer Diagnosis in 3398 Patients With Pneumonia
Author(s) -
Karen Tang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.155
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , interquartile range , pneumonia , hazard ratio , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , population , surgery , physics , environmental health , optics
One reason chest radiographs are recommended after pneumonia is to exclude underlying lung cancer. Our aims were to determine the incidence and correlates of new lung cancer and the diagnostic yield of new lung cancer by chest radiography in patients with pneumonia.
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