Value of systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection during pulmonary metastasectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 225-229

  Loehe, Florian ^a,b   Kobinger, Sonja ^a   Hatz, Rudolf A ^a   Helmberger, Thomas ^a   Loehrs, Udo ^a   Fuerst, Heinrich ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034939834     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02615-7     Document Type: Article

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