Management of small-cell lung cancer
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Management of small cell lung cancer.
Small cell lung carcinoma typically presents as a central endobronchial lesion in chronic cigarette smokers with hilar enlargement and disseminated disease. The diagnostic pathology should be reviewed by a pathologist accomplished in reading pulmonary pathology, and, if any doubt exists in the diagnosis, additional special stains or diagnostic material should be obtained. Patients with extensiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdi700