Personal experience in surgical management of pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1742-1747

  Raveglia, Federico ^a,b   Mezzetti, Maurizio ^a   Panigalli, Tiziana ^a   Furia, Simone ^a   Giuliani, Luigi ^a   Conforti, Serena ^a   Meda, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 7 ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY PLEOMORPHIC CARCINOMA; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, GIANT CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19644386010     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.04.084     Document Type: Article

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