Survival of Patients With Unsuspected N2 (Stage IIIA) Nonsmall-Cell Lung Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 362-367

  Cerfolio, Robert J ^a   Bryant, Ayesha S ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX SURGERY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47149114228     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.042     Document Type: Article

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