Is computed tomography follow-up of patients after lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer of benefit in terms of survival?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 893-898

  Srikantharajah, Dharshika ^a   Ghuman, Abeer ^b   Nagendran, Myura ^b   Maruthappu, Mahiben ^b  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Follow up; Lobectomy; Non small cell lung cancer; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DATA ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

BENCHMARKING; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869171332     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs342     Document Type: Article

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