Sentinel lymph node mapping and molecular staging in nonsmall cell lung carcinoma
β Scribed by Dianne Pulte; Eric Li; Bernard K. Crawford; Elliot Newman; Alice Alexander; David C. Mustalish; Daniel R. Jacobson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Volume
- 104
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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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.