Role of intrapulmonary lymph node retrieval for pathological examination in resectable non-small cell lung cancer

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
² Population Health Science and Policy and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.

Editorial

Apichat Tantraworasin et al. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Nov.

. 2017 Nov;9(11):4280-4282.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.118.

¹ Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
² Population Health Science and Policy and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Perspective and clinical relevance of intrapulmonary lymph node retrieval: response to the editorial by Tantraworasin and colleagues and the editorial by Marc Riquet and colleagues.
Wu N, Wang X, Wang Y, Yan S. Wu N, et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Feb;10(2):E160-E161. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.01.21. J Thorac Dis. 2018. PMID: 29608207 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Impact of Omission of Intrapulmonary Lymph Node Retrieval on Outcome Evaluation of Lung Cancer Patients Without Lymph Node Metastasis: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis.
Wang X, Yan S, Lv C, Wang Y, Wang J, Li S, Zhang L, Yang Y, Wu N. Wang X, et al. Clin Lung Cancer. 2017 Nov;18(6):e411-e416. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.05.001. Epub 2017 May 11. Clin Lung Cancer. 2017. PMID: 28576593

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