What could be the key elements to determine the optimal number of lymph nodes sampled?

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Yoshihisa Shimada. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Mar.

. 2017 Mar;9(3):E290-E291.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.03.49.

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