Lobe-specific skip nodal metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer patients

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-14

  Kawano, Ryoji ^a   Hata, Enjo ^a   Ikeda, Shingo ^a   Yokota, Toshiya ^a  

^a MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymph node metastasis; Nodal dissection; Non small cell lung cancer; Skip metastasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 43249086288     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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