The 7th Edition of the TNM Staging System for Lung Cancer. What the Radiologist Needs to Know

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 915-933

  Raptis, Constantine A ^a   Bhalla, Sanjeev ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer; Lung cancer; Non small cell lung cancer; Small cell lung cancer; Staging; TNM staging

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 84866174814     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2012.06.001     Document Type: Review

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