Results of T4 surgical cases in the Japanese lung cancer registry study: Should mediastinal fat tissue invasion really be included in the T4 category?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 759-765

  Watanabe, Shun Ichi ^a   Asamura, Hisao ^a   Miyaoka, Etsuo ^b   Okumura, Meinoshin ^c   Yoshino, Ichiro ^d   Fujii, Yoshitaka ^e   Nakanishi, Yoichi ^f   Eguchi, Kenji ^g   Mori, Masaki ^h   Sawabata, Noriyoshi ⁱ   Yokoi, Kohei ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Sapporo Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

ⁱ NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mediastinal tissue; Pulmonary metastasis; T4 lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUMOR INVASION;

EID: 84879497710     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e318290912d     Document Type: Article

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