RJ Cerfolio, AS Bryant… - The Annals of …, 2011 - Soc Thorac Surgeons ... Conclusions: Metastasectomy by thoracotomy, which affords bimanualpalpation of the entire lung, discovers ipsilateral non-imaged malignant pulmonary metastases in 1 of 5 patients who had at least 1 imaged metastatic pulmonary lesion. ... Related articles - All 2 versions
AJ Ruuskanen, MI Hippeläinen, P Sipola… - European Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier ... The size of the uterus was assessed by bimanualpalpation as 'gestational week' size. ... These patients also had significantly smaller uteri (measured by bimanual palpation of 'gestational week' size) compared to the other groups. ... Related articles - All 2 versions
VD Eusterman - Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 2011 - Elsevier ... examined. Manual and bimanualpalpation of high-risk areas, especially the tongue base, tonsils and floor of mouth (FOM), salivary glands, and thyroid may detect primary cancers early before they become metastatic. Listening ... Related articles - All 3 versions
RM Flores, UN Ihekweazu, N Rizk… - The Journal of …, 2011 - AATS/WTSA ... 3 Go This study investigated the number of lesions not apparent on preoperative computed tomographic scans that were identified at the time of thoracotomy by means of bimanualpalpation and found that 8.4% of patients were identified as having another cancerous nodule. ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - All 5 versions
H Long, Y Zheng, D Situ, G Ma… - The Annals of …, 2011 - Soc Thorac Surgeons ... failed to detect 56% of the lesions found in confirmatory thoracotomy [6]. Spiral CT has demonstrated superior detection rates compared with conventional CT [19, 20] but there continued to be reports arguing for the case for thoracotomy and bimanualpalpation of the lung [7, 8 ... Related articles - All 4 versions