Nodal upstaging is more common with thoracotomy than with VATS during lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer: An analysis from the national cancer data base

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 222-233

  Medbery, Rachel L ^a   Gillespie, Theresa W ^a   Liu, Yuan ^b,c   Nickleach, Dana C ^c   Lipscomb, Joseph ^a,b   Sancheti, Manu S ^a   Pickens, Allan ^a   Force, Seth D ^a   Fernandez, Felix G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; Lung cancer surgery; Staging; Video Assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; FACTUAL DATABASE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROPENSITY SCORE;

AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPENSITY SCORE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 84958979653     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2015.10.007     Document Type: Article

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