Skip metastasis and hidden N2 disease in lung cancer: How successful is mediastinal dissection?

Surgery Today

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 169-172

  Tsubota, Noriaki ^a   Yoshimura, Masahiro ^a  

^a Hyogo Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

lung cancer; lymph node metastasis; mediastinal dissection; skip metastasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG HILUS; LUNG LOBE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029978446     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00311501     Document Type: Article

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