Complete mediastinal lymph node dissection versus systematic lymph node sampling in surgical treatment of non-small cell lung cancer: do we have the answer?

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Yuzhao Wang et al. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Nov.

. 2017 Nov;9(11):4169-4170.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.39.

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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