Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

"Solitary Pulmonary Nodule" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A single lung lesion that is characterized by a small round mass of tissue, usually less than 1 cm in diameter, and can be detected by chest radiography. A solitary pulmonary nodule can be associated with neoplasm, tuberculosis, cyst, or other anomalies in the lung, the CHEST WALL, or the PLEURA.

Descriptor ID	D003074
MeSH Number(s)	C08.381.884
Concept/Terms	Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Pulmonary Nodule, Solitary Nodule, Solitary Pulmonary Solitary Pulmonary Nodules Nodules, Solitary Pulmonary Pulmonary Nodules, Solitary Pulmonary Coin Lesion Pulmonary Coin Lesion Lesion, Pulmonary Coin Lesions, Pulmonary Coin Coin Lesions, Pulmonary Pulmonary Coin Lesions Coin Lesion, Pulmonary

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Diseases [C]
Respiratory Tract Diseases [C08]
Lung Diseases [C08.381]
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule [C08.381.884]

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Bar chart showing 15 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2009	2	0	2
2011	1	0	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	3	1	4
2016	1	0	1
2017	2	0	2
2018	1	0	1
2020	2	0	2
2023	0	1	1

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Till BM, Grenda T, Tidwell T, Wickes B, Shusted C, Ruane B, Okusanya O, Evans NR, Barta JA. Brief Report: Nonmalignant Surgical Resection Among Individuals with Screening-Detected Versus Incidental Lung Nodules. Clin Lung Cancer. 2024 May; 25(3):e129-e132.e4.

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Iaccarino JM, Steiling K, Slatore CG, Drainoni ML, Wiener RS. Patient characteristics associated with adherence to pulmonary nodule guidelines. Respir Med. 2020 09; 171:106075.

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Mazzone PJ, Gould MK, Arenberg DA, Chen AC, Choi HK, Detterbeck FC, Farjah F, Fong KM, Iaccarino JM, Janes SM, Kanne JP, Kazerooni EA, MacMahon H, Naidich DP, Powell CA, Raoof S, Rivera MP, Tanner NT, Tanoue LK, Tremblay A, Vachani A, White CS, Wiener RS, Silvestri GA. Management of Lung Nodules and Lung Cancer Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic: CHEST Expert Panel Report. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 Jul; 17(7):845-854.

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Predina JD, Newton AD, Corbett C, Shin M, Sulfyok LF, Okusanya OT, Delikatny EJ, Nie S, Gaughan C, Jarrar D, Pechet T, Kucharczuk JC, Singhal S. Near-infrared intraoperative imaging for minimally invasive pulmonary metastasectomy for sarcomas. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 05; 157(5):2061-2069.

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Predina JD, Newton AD, Keating J, Barbosa EM, Okusanya O, Xia L, Dunbar A, Connolly C, Baldassari MP, Mizelle J, Delikatny EJ, Kucharczuk JC, Deshpande C, Kularatne SA, Low P, Drebin J, Singhal S. Intraoperative Molecular Imaging Combined With Positron Emission Tomography Improves Surgical Management of Peripheral Malignant Pulmonary Nodules. Ann Surg. 2017 09; 266(3):479-488.

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Iaccarino JM, Wiener RS. Pulmonary Nodule Guidelines: What Physicians Do When Evidence-Based Guidelines Lack High-Quality Evidence. Chest. 2017 08; 152(2):232-234.

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Simmons J, Gould MK, Iaccarino J, Slatore CG, Wiener RS. Systems-Level Resources for Pulmonary Nodule Evaluation in the United States: A National Survey. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2016 05 01; 193(9):1063-5.

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Bullock-Palmer RP, Freeman AM, Kontak A, Shaw LJ, Dickert NW, Henzlova M, Shirani J, Dorbala S, Dilsizian V, Einstein AJ. Collegial pressure and patient-centered shared-decision making: A case-based ethics discussion. J Nucl Cardiol. 2015 Oct; 22(5):920-2.

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Al-Ameri A, Malhotra P, Thygesen H, Plant PK, Vaidyanathan S, Karthik S, Scarsbrook A, Callister ME. Authors' response--Risk of malignancy in pulmonary nodules: a validation study of four prediction models. Lung Cancer. 2015 Oct; 90(1):119-20.

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Teoh EJ, McGowan DR, Bradley KM, Belcher E, Black E, Gleeson FV. Novel penalised likelihood reconstruction of PET in the assessment of histologically verified small pulmonary nodules. Eur Radiol. 2016 Feb; 26(2):576-84.

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