Intrapulmonic tumor cell dissemination and intraoperative pleural lavage as prognostic factors in lung cancer;INTRAPULMONALE TUMORZELLAUSBREITUNG UND INTRAOPERATIVE PLEURALAVAGE ALS PROGNOSEFAKTOREN BEIM BRONCHIALKARZINOM

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 90-95

  Buhr, J ^a,b   Berghauser K H ^b   Gonner, S ^a,b   Schaffer R ^b   Padberg, W M ^a  

^a Klin F Allgemein T   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

intraoperative pleural lavage; lung cancer; prognosis; staging; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; CELL MIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PLEURA; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029962366     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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