Endothoracic Sonography Improves the Estimation of Operability in Locally Advanced Lung Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 217-221

  Lesser, Thomas G ^a  

^a SRH Wald Klinikum Gera   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHORACIC SONOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HILAR DISSECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953565922     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.03.072     Document Type: Article

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