Nodal management and upstaging of disease: initial results from the Italian VATS Lobectomy Registry
Author(s) -
Alessandro Bertani,
Alessandro Gonfiotti,
Mario Nosotti,
Paolo Albino Ferrari,
Lavinia De Monte,
Emanuele Russo,
Gioacchino Di Paola,
Piergiorgio Solli,
Andrea Droghetti,
Luca Bertolaccini,
Roberto Crisci
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2017.06.12
Subject(s) - medicine , lymph node , dissection (medical) , nodal , stage (stratigraphy) , receiver operating characteristic , lymph , surgery , radiology , pathology , paleontology , biology
VATS lobectomy is an established option for the treatment of early-stage NSCLC. Complete lymph node dissection (CD), systematic sampling (SS) or resecting a specific number of lymph nodes (LNs) and stations are possible intra-operative LN management strategies.
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