Mediastinal staging of non-small-cell lung cancer

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 835-851

  Dhillon, Samjot Singh ^a   Dhillon, Jaspreet Kaur ^a   Yendamuri, Sai ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endobronchial ultrasound; Endoscopic ultrasound; Lung cancer; Mediastinoscopy; Staging; TEMLA

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MICROMETASTASIS; NERVE PARALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TUMOR CELL; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

EID: 81255157035     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.11.75     Document Type: Review

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