Lymph node size and metastatic infiltration in non-small cell lung cancer

Chest

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 463-467

  Prenzel, Klaus L ^a   Mönig, Stefan P ^a   Sinning, Jan M ^a   Baldus, Stephan E ^a   Brochhagen, Hans Georg ^a   Schneider, Paul M ^a   Hölscher, Arnulf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT imaging; Lung cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Lymph node size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037331542     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.123.2.463     Document Type: Article

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