Deciding to trust, coming to believe: sentinel lymph node assessment in lung cancer

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Yin-Kai Chao. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;10(Suppl 33):S3978-S3980.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.09.15.

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan.

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