Prognostic significance of visceral pleural invasion in the forthcoming (seventh) edition of TNM classification for lung cancer

Lung Cancer

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-165

  Shim, Hyo Sup ^a   Park, In Kyu ^a   Lee, Chang Young ^a   Chung, Kyung Young ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cancer staging; Non small cell lung carcinoma; Prognosis; TNM classification; Tumor size; Visceral pleural invasion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISCERAL PLEURAL INVASION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLEURA; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 67449143782     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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