Invasive Staging of Mediastinal Lymph Nodes: Mediastinoscopy and Remediastinoscopy

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-189

  Rami Porta, Ramón ^a   Call, Sergi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lung cancer staging; Mediastinal lymph nodes; Mediastinoscopy; Remediastinoscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER STAGING; EXTENDED CERVICAL MEDIASTINOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFERIOR MEDIASTINOSCOPY; LUNG CANCER; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETREATMENT;

EID: 84860011107     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2011.12.003     Document Type: Review

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