Mediastinal lymph node metastases in lung cancer: is size a valid criterion?
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Mediastinal lymph node metastases in lung cancer: is size a valid criterion?
Mediastinal lymph node metastases in lung cancer: is size a valid criterion? Few surgical procedures are so demoralising to the patient, disappointing to the referring physician, or frustrating for the surgeon as a thoracotomy for inoperable carcinoma of the bronchus. It is axiomatic that surgery is curative only when the disease is extirpated in its entirety. Despite major advances in the non-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.47.5.332