Reliability of symptoms to determine use of bone scans to identify bone metastases in lung cancer: prospective study

29 April 2004

journal article
Published by BMJ in BMJ

Vol. 328 (7447) , 1051-1052
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7447.1051

Abstract

We redetermine the role of symptoms and serum concentrations in detecting bony metastases in lung cancer and reassess the accuracy of bone scans for screening.

Keywords

BONE SCANS
REDETERMINE
BONY
REASSESS
LUNG CANCER
METASTASES IN LUNG

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