This study was undertaken to investigate the patterns of lymph node spread and the frequency of involvement of noncontiguous lymph node stations in patients with nonsmall cell lung carcinoma who had complete surgical resection. ## METHODS. All patients who had surgical resection as their sole trea
Cathepsin B in infiltrated lymph nodes is of prognostic significance for patients with nonsmall cell lung carcinoma
✍ Scribed by Bernd Werle; Clemens Kraft; Tamara T. Lah; Janko Kos; Ulrike Schanzenbächer; Klaus Kayser; Werner Ebert; Eberhard Spiess
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 714 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
The authors thank Beate Schaufler and Theresia Trull for technical assistance, Alexander Staib and Johannes Schumacher for collecting tissues of lung cancer patients, and Professor Roger Pain and Chris McCollough for correcting the article.
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