Diagnosis of visceral pleural invasion in resected lung cancer using a jet stream of saline solution

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1626-1629

  Ichinose, Yukito ^a   Yano, Tokujiro ^a   Asoh, Hiroshi ^a   Yokoyama, Hideki ^a   Fukuyama, Yasuro ^a   Katsuda, Yasaburo ^a  

^a NATIONAL KYUSHU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JET INJECTION; LAVAGE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PLEURA; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VISCERA;

EID: 0031431401     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00929-6     Document Type: Article

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