Multiple Pulmonary Nodules

"Multiple Pulmonary Nodules" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A number of small lung lesions characterized by small round masses of 2- to 3-mm in diameter. They are usually detected by chest CT scans (COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY). Such nodules can be associated with metastases of malignancies inside or outside the lung, benign granulomas, or other lesions.

Descriptor ID	D055613
MeSH Number(s)	C04.588.894.797.520.237 C08.381.540.148 C08.785.520.148
Concept/Terms	Multiple Pulmonary Nodules Multiple Pulmonary Nodules Multiple Pulmonary Nodule Pulmonary Nodule, Multiple Pulmonary Nodules, Multiple

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Multiple Pulmonary Nodules".

Diseases [C]
Neoplasms [C04]
Neoplasms by Site [C04.588]
Thoracic Neoplasms [C04.588.894]
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms [C04.588.894.797]
Lung Neoplasms [C04.588.894.797.520]
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules [C04.588.894.797.520.237]
Respiratory Tract Diseases [C08]
Lung Diseases [C08.381]
Lung Neoplasms [C08.381.540]
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules [C08.381.540.148]
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms [C08.785]
Lung Neoplasms [C08.785.520]
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules [C08.785.520.148]

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Bar chart showing 21 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2010	1	1	2
2012	1	0	1
2013	1	1	2
2014	1	0	1
2015	2	0	2
2017	4	0	4
2018	1	0	1
2020	2	1	3
2023	1	1	2
2024	0	1	1
2026	2	0	2

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Gilyard S, Ahmed O, Kim CY, Chundury A, Donnelly EF, Knavel Koepsel EM, Lin J, Makary MS, Mehta P, Monroe EJ, Scheidt MJ, Servais E, Fidelman N. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Radiologic Management of Pulmonary Nodules and Masses: Update 2025. J Am Coll Radiol. 2026 May; 23(5):915-927.

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Servais EL, Hayanga JWA, Linden P, Sood P, Raymond DP, Antonoff MB, Chudgar NP, Keshava HB, Velotta JB, Crabtree T, Jeffrey Yang CF, Raz D, Tong B, Cooke DT, Erkmen CP, Shaller B, Kent MS, McKee A, Phan CT, Daly ME, Onaitis MW, Edwards JP, Yang SC, Merritt RE, Shrager J. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2025) Expert Consensus Document on Interventions for Screen-Detected Lung Nodules. Ann Thorac Surg. 2026 06; 121(6):1283-1297.

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Abdulelah M, Kasher N, Primera G, Matta J, Patel R, Anis K, DiNino E. Is There a Baby in the Lung? A Case of Placental Transmogrification of the Lung. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. 2024 Jan-Dec; 12:23247096241261322.

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Lamb CR, Rieger-Christ KM, Reddy C, Huang J, Ding J, Johnson M, Walsh PS, Bulman WA, Lofaro LR, Wahidi MM, Feller-Kopman DJ, Spira A, Kennedy GC, Mazzone PJ. A Nasal Swab Classifier to Evaluate the?Probability of Lung Cancer in Patients With Pulmonary Nodules. Chest. 2024 04; 165(4):1009-1019.

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Hammer MM, Gupta S, Byrne SC. Volume Doubling Times of Benign and Malignant Nodules in Lung Cancer Screening. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol. 2023 Nov-Dec; 52(6):515-518.

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de Margerie-Mellon C, Gill RR, Salazar P, Oikonomou A, Nguyen ET, Heidinger BH, Medina MA, VanderLaan PA, Bankier AA. Assessing invasiveness of subsolid lung adenocarcinomas with combined attenuation and geometric feature models. Sci Rep. 2020 09 03; 10(1):14585.

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Gupta S, Jacobson FL, Kong CY, Hammer MM. Performance of Lung Nodule Management Algorithms for Lung-RADS Category 4 Lesions. Acad Radiol. 2021 08; 28(8):1037-1042.

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Dominguez-Konicki L, Karam AR, Furman MS, Grand DJ. CT-guided biopsy of pulmonary nodules =10?mm: Diagnostic yield based on nodules' lobar and segmental distribution. Clin Imaging. 2020 Oct; 66:7-9.

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Sim Y, Chung MJ, Kotter E, Yune S, Kim M, Do S, Han K, Kim H, Yang S, Lee DJ, Choi BW. Deep Convolutional Neural Network-based Software Improves Radiologist Detection of Malignant Lung Nodules on Chest Radiographs. Radiology. 2020 01; 294(1):199-209.

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de Margerie-Mellon C, Onken A, Heidinger BH, VanderLaan PA, Bankier AA. CT Manifestations of Tumor Spread Through Airspaces in Pulmonary Adenocarcinomas Presenting as Subsolid Nodules. J Thorac Imaging. 2018 Nov; 33(6):402-408.

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