Intraoperative brachytherapy following thoracoscopic wedge resection of stage I lung cancer

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Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1112-1115

  D'Amato, Thomas A ^a   Galloway, Michael ^a   Szydlowski, Gary ^a   Chen, Alex ^a   Landreneau, Rodney J ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Non small cell lung cancer; Stage I lung cancer; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS); Wedge resection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0031731896     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.4.1112     Document Type: Article

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