Objective review of mediastinal lymph node examination in a lung cancer resection cohort

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 390-396

  Osarogiagbon, Raymond U ^a   Allen, Jeffrey W ^a   Farooq, Aamer ^a   Wu, James T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Lung cancer surgery; Lymph nodes; Mediastinal lymph nodes; Pathology dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM EXAMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SURGEON;

EID: 84858303229     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e31823e5e2d     Document Type: Article

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