History of extended cervical mediastinoscopy
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History of extended cervical mediastinoscopy.
We appreciate and read with great interest the article by Call et al. [1] about their extensive experience with extended mediastinoscopy. We fully support their conclusion. In our personal experiencewith now 108 cases extendedmediastinoscopyrevealedN2disease instations5or6 in17%ofallpatients. In 11%ofall patients only these stationswerepositive,meaning that with standard medastinoscopy without ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1010-7940
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.01.004