Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for diagnosis, staging, and management of lung cancer with suspected mediastinal lymphadenopathy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 104-109

  Brega Massone, Pier Paolo ^a   Conti, B ^a   Magnani, B ^a   Lequaglie, C ^a   Cataldo, I ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Mediastinal lymph nodal biopsy; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036224548     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129689-200204000-00006     Document Type: Article

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