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Are symptoms reliable as an indication for the necessity of bone scans in lung cancer metastases?

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boxed-text Hetzel M et al . (2004) Reliability of symptoms to determine use of bone scans to identify bone metastases in lung cancer: prospective study. BMJ 328: 1051–1052

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