Editorial comment. Mediastinal restaging: has the Holy Grail been found?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 780-781

  Van Schil, Paul E ^a   Hendriks, Jeroen M H ^a   De Waele, Michèle ^a   Lauwers, Patrick ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Induction therapy; Lung cancer; Restaging; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORACOTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 77949488604     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.11.040     Document Type: Article

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