Surgical techniques for nonseminomatous germ cell tumors metastatic to the lung

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 739-748

  Boffa, Daniel J ^a   Rusch, Valerie W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMONECTOMY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036854845     PISSN: 10523359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1052-3359(02)00035-2     Document Type: Review

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