Surgical resection is sufficient for incidentally discovered solitary pulmonary nodule caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria in asymptomatic patients

• Hung-Ling Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chia-Jung Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Meng-Rui Lee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Meng-Hsuan Cheng,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Po-Liang Lu,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Jann-Yuan Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jann-Yuan Wang, Inn-Wen Chong

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chong@kmu.edu.tw (IWC); jywang@ntu.edu.tw (JYW)

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Inn-Wen Chong

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jann-Yuan Wang, Inn-Wen Chong

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chong@kmu.edu.tw (IWC); jywang@ntu.edu.tw (JYW)

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Departments of Respiratory Therapy, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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