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Editorial
. 2019 Dec 19;1(5):e190201.
doi: 10.1148/ryct.2019190201. eCollection 2019 Dec.

To Be or Not to Be … a Pulmonary Nodule

Constance de Margerie-Mellon  1 , Alexander A Bankier  1
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To Be or Not to Be … a Pulmonary Nodule

Constance de Margerie-Mellon et al. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. .
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Disclosures of Conflicts of Interest: C.d.M.M. Activities related to the present article: disclosed no relevant relationships. Activities not related to the present article: grants from Institut Servier and Olea Medical. Other relationships: disclosed no relevant relationships. A.A.B. Activities related to the present article: disclosed no relevant relationships. Activities not related to the present article: consultant for Daiichi Pharmaceutical and Spiration (Olympus Medical); expert testimony for Risk Foundation of Massachusetts; royalties from Elsevier. Other relationships: disclosed no relevant relationships.

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Constance de Margerie-Mellon, MD, is an academic thoracic radiologist. She completed her residency and clinical fellowship in Paris, France. Her research interests revolve around the quantitative assessment of lung nodules and other thoracic diseases. She is the 2019 Sven Paulin Research Fellow in Cardiothoracic Imaging at the department of radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Alexander A. Bankier, MD, PhD, is chief of the thoracic imaging section at the department of radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. His research includes all aspects of quantitative and functional imaging of thoracic diseases, notably of pulmonary emphysema, chronic airways disease, and fibrotic lung disease, as well as the imaging aspects of thoracic oncology.
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