Detecting extrathoracic metastases in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: Is routine scanning necessary?

Lung Cancer

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-67

  Metintas, Muzaffer ^a   Ak, Guntulu ^a   Akcayir, Ilknur Ak ^b   Metintas, Selma ^a   Erginel, Sinan ^a   Alatas, Fusun ^a   Yildirim, Huseyin ^a   Kurt, Emel ^a   Ozkan, Ragip ^a  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b ESKISEHIR MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Lung cancer; Metastasis; Screening; Stage

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548492302     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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