Abstract:Summary
A review of staging investigations in the preoperative evaluation of mediastinal involvement in primary bronchial carcinoma is presented.
The following conclusions are offered as guidelines for the use of mediastinal staging procedures in clinical practice:
Surgical staging methods have the over-riding advantage of superior specificity over indirect imaging techniques. Where 67Ga-imaging or CT scanning are not available, routine pre-operative mediastinoscopy… Show more
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“…(Baron et a1 1982, Breyer et a1. Brodein et a1 1981, Bush et al 1981, Clarnon 1983, Daly et a1 1984, Davis et a1 1987, Economou and Trump 1982, Elliott 1984, Faling et a1 1981 a11984, Levitt et a1 1982, Mullen and \ ' I…”
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