Accuracy of EUS in staging of T4 lung cancer

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 345-348

  Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a,b,c   Schmulewitz, Nathan ^a,b   Wildi, Stephan F ^a,b   Roberts, Stacey ^a,b   Ravenel, James ^a,b   Reed, Carolyn E ^a,b   Block, Mark ^a,b   Hoffman, Brenda J ^a,b   Hawes, Robert H ^a,b   Wallace, Michael B ^a,b  

^a Medical University of South Carolina ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12144289806     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)02541-0     Document Type: Article

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