Prognostic significance of tumor size of small lung adenocarcinomas evaluated with mediastinal window settings on computed tomography.

BACKGROUND:We aimed to clarify that the size of the lung adenocarcinoma evaluated using mediastinal window on computed tomography is an important and useful modality for predicting invasiveness, lymph node metastasis and prognosis in small adenocarcinoma. METHODS:We evaluated 176 patients with small...

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Main Authors: Yukinori Sakao, Hiroaki Kuroda, Mingyon Mun, Hirofumi Uehara, Noriko Motoi, Yuichi Ishikawa, Ken Nakagawa, Sakae Okumura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4217725?pdf=render