Metastatic thoracic lymph node carcinoma with unknown primary site

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 244-249

  Riquet, Marc ^a,b,c   Badoual, Cécile ^a,b   Le Pimpec Barthes, Françoise ^a,b   Dujon, Antoine ^a,b   Danel, Claire ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

^b Ctr Medico Chirurgical du Cedre   (France)

^c Service de Chirurgie Thoracique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOBECTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA;

AGED; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; KERATINS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA, MUCOSA-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PNEUMONECTOMY; THYROGLOBULIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUBERCULOMA;

EID: 0037232530     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04119-X     Document Type: Article

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