Multimodality approach to mediastinal staging in non-small cell lung cancer. Faults and benefits of PET-CT: A randomised trial

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Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 294-300

  Fischer, Barbara M ^a,b   Mortensen, Jann ^a   Hansen, Hanne ^c   Vilmann, Peter ^d   Larsen, Søren S ^b   Loft, Annika ^a   Bertelsen, Anne K ^a   Ravn, Jesper ^a   Clementsen, Paul ^d   Høegholm, Asbjørn ^e   Larsen, Klaus R ^c   Dirksen, Asger ^d   Skov, Birgit G ^c   Krasnik, Mark ^f   Højgaard, Liselotte ^a   Lassen, Ulrik ^a  

^a International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e NAESTVED HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 79953007651     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.154476     Document Type: Article

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