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Editorial
. 2016 Oct;8(10):E1257-E1259.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.10.17.

Lung cancer screening: not all nodules are created equal

Gaurav Shukla  1 , Noelle L Williams  1 , Christopher Luminais  2 , Bo Lu  1 , Wenyin Shi  1
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Editorial

Lung cancer screening: not all nodules are created equal

Gaurav Shukla et al. J Thorac Dis. 2016 Oct.
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