The prognostic significance of skip mediastinal lymphatic metastasis in resected non-small cell lung cancer

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1 March 2002

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Vol. 21 (3) , 595
https://doi.org/10.1016/s1010-7940(01)01135-6

Abstract

Lung cancer can metastasize to mediastinal lymph nodes without affecting bronchopulmonary lymph nodes. This phenomenon is named skip metastasis (N1 without N2)

Keywords

LUNG CANCER
LYMPHATIC METASTASIS
PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE
MEDIASTINAL LYMPHATIC
SKIP MEDIASTINAL

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