Treatment strategy for patients with surgically discovered N2 stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 342-348

  Nakanishi, Ryoichi ^a   Osaki, Toshihiro ^a   Nakanishi, Kozo ^a   Yoshino, Ichiro ^a   Yoshimatsu, Takashi ^a   Watanabe, Hideyuki ^a   Nakata, Hajime ^a   Yasumoto, Kosei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030817696     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00535-3     Document Type: Article

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