Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Improving Lung Nodule Diagnosis
March 28, 2023
March 28, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 28 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news:
Indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPNs) are a common finding on CT imaging of the lungs and often require costly and invasive testing to diagnose. IPN diagnosis is especially difficult in regions like Middle Tennessee where fungal diseases such as histoplasmosis are endemic.
Hannah Marmor, MD, MPH, and colleagues combined imaging and blood biomarkers with the Mayo . . .
Indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPNs) are a common finding on CT imaging of the lungs and often require costly and invasive testing to diagnose. IPN diagnosis is especially difficult in regions like Middle Tennessee where fungal diseases such as histoplasmosis are endemic.
Hannah Marmor, MD, MPH, and colleagues combined imaging and blood biomarkers with the Mayo . . .