Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach in the Positron Emission Tomographic Scan Era

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 231-234

  De Pas, Tommaso M ^a   de Braud, Filippo ^a   Catalano, Gianpiero ^a   Putzu, Carlo ^a   Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Leo, Francesco ^a   Solli, Piero G ^a   Brambilla, Daniela ^a   Paganelli, Giovanni ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845495167     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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