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Patient selection flowchart for both cancer and benign nodules. CT chest scan reports were reviewed for presence of a nodule and then imaging selected on the basis of the listed exclusion criteria. CT, computed tomography; SCC, squamous cell cancer; SCLC, small-cell lung cancer.
