Assessment of adequacy of intraoperative nodal staging and factors influencing the lack of its compliance with recommendations in the surgical treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Conclusions: UICC recommendations led to an increased adequacy of nodal sampling. The factors affecting insufficient number of sampled nodes include advanced age, left side, sublobar resections and T1 stage. Inaccuracy of intraoperative nodal staging results in incorrect prognosis. PMID: 30233864 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research