Comparative Analysis of Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis Between Primary Lung Cancers Identified as Screening Detected and Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Nodules

¹Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
²Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
³Department of Radiology, Ansan Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea;
⁴Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
⁵Department of Health Sciences and Technology, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
⁶Department of Thoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Correspondence to: Sang-Won Um, MD, MPH, Ph.D., Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 06351, Republic of Korea. Tel: +82 234101645, Fax: +82 234103849, e-mail: sangwonum{at}skku.edu