The clinical value of routine preoperative surgical staging to mediastinal lymph nodes on lung cancer

Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 624-627

  Xu, Ye ^a   Shentu, Yang ^b   Zheng, Min ^a   Guo, Ming ^a  

^a Changning District Central Hospital   (China)

^b SHANGHAI CHEST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Lung neoplasms; Mediastinoscopy; Stage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953623973     PISSN: 10093419     EISSN: 19996187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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