Diagnosis of visceral pleural invasion by lung cancer using intraoperative touch cytology

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1552-1556

  Saito, Yushi ^a   Yamakawa, Yosuke ^a   Kiriyama, Masanobu ^a   Fukai, Ichiro ^a   Kondo, Satoshi ^a   Kaji, Masahiro ^a   Yano, Motoki ^a   Yokoyama, Tomoki ^a   Fujii, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAVAGE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORACOTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036260058     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03404-5     Document Type: Article

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