Measurement Bias of Gross Pathologic Compared with Radiologic Tumor Size of Resected Lung Adenocarcinomas: Implications for the T-Stage Revisions in the Eighth Edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 641-648

  Anderson, Kevin R ^a   Heidinger, Benedikt H ^a   Chen, Yigu ^a   Bankier, Alexander A ^a   Laan, Paul A Vander ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PATHOLOGY; SEGMENTECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; WEDGE RESECTION; ADENOCARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; UNITED STATES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEER PROGRAM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85020922251     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqx036     Document Type: Article

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