The new strategy of selective nodal dissection for lung cancer based on segment-specific patterns of nodal spread

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 106-109

  Watanabe, Shun Ichi ^a   Asamura, Hisao ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Tsuchiya, Ryosuke ^a   Van Schil, P ^b   Branscheid, D ^b   Elia, S ^b   Turna, A ^b   Passlick, B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

N2; Non small cell lung cancer; Selective nodal dissection; Systematic nodal dissection

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 24744438697     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2004.098814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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