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Determination of standard number, size and weight of mediastinal lymph nodes in postmortem examinations: reflection on lung cancer surgery

BACKGROUND: Mediastinal lymph node dissection is an essential component of lung cancer surgery. Literature lacks established information regarding the number and size of the healthy lymph nodes. In this postmortem autopsy study, we aim to define the number, size and weight of the lymph nodes in each...

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Autores principales: Ziyade, Sedat, Pinarbasili, Nur Buyuk, Ziyade, Nihan, Akdemir, Osman Cemil, Sahin, Feyzi, Soysal, Ömer, Toker, Alper
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3646666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23591054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-94