Advances in the staging of intrathoracic malignancies

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 167-173

  Whyte, Richard I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0035052601     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002680020015     Document Type: Article

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