Prognostic Heterogeneity in Multilevel N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients: Importance of Lymphadenopathy and Occult Intrapulmonary Metastases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1060-1063

  Sakao, Yukinori ^a   Okumura, Sakae ^a   Mun, Mingyon ^a   Uehara, Hirofumi ^a   Ishikawa, Yuichi ^a   Nakagawa, Ken ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SIZE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77949551872     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.066     Document Type: Article

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