Update to the Fleischner glossary terms in thoracic radiology: What´s new in the 2024 version
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Multidetector computed tomography, Radiography, thoracic, Pulmonary nodulesAbstract
The Fleischner Society has created four versions of their Glossary of Terms for Thoracic Imaging in 1984, 1996, 2008, and its last version in 2024. The glossary, with its various updates, aims to standardize language among different healthcare professionals to enable communication between different areas in order to improve patient care. In this article, the changes between the previous version —2008—
and the current version —2024— are described in Spanish with the help of a medical language translator and two medical dictionaries of Spain. We will focus on the most important aspects of each definition, in the current version 26 terms were added, 17 were eliminated and 37 reorganized.
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