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    Fleischner Society Guidelines for Incidental Pulmonary Nodules

    Provides guidelines for management of solid and subsolid pulmonary nodules.

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Use in patients ≥35 years old with incidental pulmonary nodules on CT imaging. Do not use for lung cancer screening or in patients with known primary cancer or immunosuppression. Use most suspicious nodule as guide to management. 

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    Dr. Heber MacMahon
    Dr. Heber MacMahon
    About the creator

    Heber MacMahon, MB, BCh, is the section chief of thoracic radiology and a professor of radiology at the University of Chicago Medicine. He is also a leader in the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center's Advanced Imaging Program. Dr. MacMahon’s primary research is focused on thoracic diagnostic radiology, lung cancer detection, and computer-aided diagnosis.

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