Extrathoracic staging is not necessary for non-small-cell lung cancer with clinical stage T1-2 N0

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1039-1042

  Tanaka, Keiko ^a   Kubota, Kaoru ^a,b   Kodama, Tetsuro ^b   Nagai, Kanji ^a   Nishiwaki, Yutaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032751535     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00694-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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