Controversy about small peripheral lung adenocarcinomas: How should we manage them?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 546-552

  Fukui, Takayuki ^a   Sakakura, Noriaki ^a   Mori, Shoichi ^a   Hatooka, Shunzo ^a   Shinoda, Masayuki ^a   Yatabe, Yasushi ^a   Mitsudomi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia; Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma; Ground glass opacity

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; K RAS PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34447116978     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e318060d30d     Document Type: Review

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