Prognostic significance of metastasis to the highest mediastinal lymph node in nonsmall cell lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 292-297

  Sakao, Yukinori ^a   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^a   Yamazaki, Akio ^a   Oh, Tsumin ^a   Fukai, Ryuta ^a   Shiomi, Kazu ^a   Saito, Yuichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 29144475118     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.06.077     Document Type: Article

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