Peripheral small-sized (2 cm or less) non-small cell lung cancer with mediastinal lymph node metastasis; clinicopathologic features and patterns of nodal spread

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 995-999

  Watanabe, Shun ichi ^a,b   Oda, Makoto ^a   Tsunezuka, Yoshio ^a   Go, Tetsuhiko ^a   Ohta, Yasuhiko ^a   Watanabe, Go ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Mediastinal lymph node metastasis; Small sized lung cancer; Systematic nodal dissection; Thallium 201 single photon emission computed tomography (201Tl SPECT)

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG LOBE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036894364     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(02)00578-X     Document Type: Article

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