Number of mediastinal lymph nodes in non-small cell lung cancer: A Gaussian curve, not a prognostic factor

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 224-231

  Riquet, Marc ^a   Legras, Antoine ^a   Mordant, Pierre ^a   Rivera, Caroline ^a   Arame, Alex ^a   Gibault, Laure ^a   Foucault, Christophe ^a   Dujon, Antoine ^a   Le Pimpec Barthes, Françoise ^a  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903878409     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.03.023     Document Type: Article

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