Video-assisted cervical mediastinoscopy: Our seven-year experience

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1015-1018

  Karfis, Elias A ^a,c   Roustanis, Evangelos ^a   Beis, John ^b   Kakadellis, John ^a  

^a G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lung cancer diagnosis and staging; Mediastinal lymph nodes; Mediastinoscopy; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57349168040     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.178111     Document Type: Article

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