Pleural lavage cytology in non-small cell lung cancer: Lessons from 1000 consecutive resections

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1911-1915

  Okada, Morihito ^a   Sakamoto, Toshihiko ^a   Nishio, Wataru ^a   Uchino, Kazuya ^a   Tsuboshima, Kenji ^a   Tsubota, Noriaki ^a  

^a HYOGO MEDICAL CENTER FOR ADULTS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAVAGE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0345802942     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)00715-3     Document Type: Article

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