Lymph Node Evaluation in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy Versus Lobectomy by Thoracotomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1730-1736

  Denlinger, Chadrick E ^a   Fernandez, Felix ^a   Meyers, Bryan F ^a   Pratt, Wande ^a   Zoole, Jennifer Bell ^a   Patterson, G Alexander ^a   Krupnick, A Sasha ^a   Kreisel, Daniel ^a   Crabtree, Traves ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 77952303773     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.094     Document Type: Article

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