Minimally invasive strategy for mediastinal staging of patients with lung cancer.
CONCLUSIONS Patients with lung cancer with negative results of PET, EBUS-NA, and EUS-NA are at low risk of mediastinal nodal metastasis. In these patients, invasive mediastinal staging may not be necessary.
PMID: 26787633 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Pol Arch Med Wewn Source Type: research
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