Thoracoscopic Mediastinal Lymph Node Dissection for Lung Cancer

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-141

  Lee, Hyun Sung ^a   Jang, Hee Jin ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mediastinal lymph node dissection; Minimally invasive surgery; Non small cell lung cancer; Robotic surgery; VATS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM STAGING; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865378265     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: 15329488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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