Surgical Resection Is Justified in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Node Negative T4 Satellite Lesions

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 893-899

  Pennathur, Arjun ^a   Lindeman, Brenessa ^a   Ferson, Peter ^a   Ninan, Mathew ^c   Quershi, Irfan ^a   Gooding, William E ^b   Schuchert, Matthew ^a   Christie, Neil A ^a   Landreneau, Rodney J ^a   Luketich, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60749107806     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.073     Document Type: Article

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