Clinical Experience in Staging of Lung Cancer at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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H. NEEF

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Staging of lung cancer needs an accurate diagnostic pro gramme resulting in therapeutic and prognostic consequen ces. A modern, articulate flow-chart is presented and discus sed. As a result, the rate of exploratory thoracotomy was reduced from 15.1% in 1988 to 2.1% in 1997 and the rate of resectability raised up to 30%. Preoperative over staging was found in about 25% and the same value for understaging. Looking to the N-values, there was concor dance of clinical and postoperative data in 61.9% of cases.

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NEEF, H. “Clinical Experience in Staging of Lung Cancer at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg”. Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia, vol. 70, no. 6, Nov. 1999, pp. 909-12, https://annaliitalianidichirurgia.it/index.php/aic/article/view/3222.
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