The impact of immunohistochemical detection of positive lymph nodes in early stage lung cancer

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 124-128

  Cagatay, Tezel ^a,b   Ersev, A A ^a   Kiral, H ^a   Urek, S ^a   Kosar, A ^a   Keles, M ^a   Dudu, C ^a   Arman, B ^a  

^a DR SIYAMI ERSEK THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diagnosis and staging; Immunohistochemistry; Lung cancer; Lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; EPITHELIAL SPECIFIC ANTIGEN AB 9; KERATIN; KERATIN PAN AB 1; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33645083204     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-872867     Document Type: Article

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