To biopsy, or not to biopsy?
Monday, October 29, 2012
I met a new patient in clinic this week who has a solitary pulmonary nodule that has been followed with serial CT scans for a year, contains calcification, is FDG-PET-negative, and was biopsied with no evidence of malignant cells. It grew from 14mm to 17mm on the latest CT, and he came self-referred...