Contralateral mediastinal lymph node micrometastases assessed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in stage I non-small cell left lung cancer | Zendy

Kentaro Anami | Zendy; Shinichi Yamashita | Zendy; Satoshi Yamamoto | Zendy; Masao Chujo | Zendy; Keita Tokuishi | Zendy; Toshihiko Moroga | Zendy; Hiromu Mori | Zendy; Katsunobu Kawahara | Zendy

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Contralateral mediastinal lymph node micrometastases assessed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in stage I non-small cell left lung cancer

Author(s) -

Kentaro Anami,

Shinichi Yamashita,

Satoshi Yamamoto,

Masao Chujo,

Keita Tokuishi,

Toshihiko Moroga,

Hiromu Mori,

Katsunobu Kawahara

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezs415

Subject(s) - medicine , mediastinal lymph node , occult , stage (stratigraphy) , dissection (medical) , lymph node , lung cancer , micrometastasis , surgery , radiology , cancer , metastasis , pathology , paleontology , alternative medicine , biology

Survival of patients with left-sided stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is unsatisfactory, probably because of the high incidence of contralateral mediastinal node involvement. In this study, occult micrometastases to the right upper mediastinal nodes were retrospectively investigated in patients with left-sided stage I NSCLC.

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