Mediastinal staging of lung cancer: Novel concepts

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tournoy, Kurt G ^a   Keller, Steven M ^b   Annema, Jouke T ^c,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; BLEEDING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; NERVE INJURY; NOTE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 84860433382     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70407-7     Document Type: Note

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