A prospective trial of systematic nodal dissection for lung cancer by video-assisted thoracic surgery: Can it be perfect?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 900-904

  Sagawa, Motoyasu ^a   Sato, Masami ^b   Sakurada, Akira ^b   Matsumura, Yuji ^b   Endo, Chiaki ^b   Handa, Masashi ^b   Kondo, Takashi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG HILUS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036189009     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03409-9     Document Type: Article

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