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Esophageal Ultrasound-Controlled Fine Needle Aspiration for Staging of Mediastinal Lymph Nodes in Patients with Resectable Lung Cancer: Do We Always See.

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1 Esophageal Ultrasound-Controlled Fine Needle Aspiration for Staging of Mediastinal Lymph Nodes in Patients with Resectable Lung Cancer: Do We Always See the Reality?  Christophe Dooms, MD, PhD, Johan Vansteenkiste, MD, PhD, Dirk Van Renterghem, MD, Paul De Leyn, MD, PhD  Journal of Thoracic Oncology  Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages (August 2009) DOI: /JTO.0b013e3181ad81ac Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

2 FIGURE 1 Case 1: a patient with a lung mass in the posterior part of the right lower lobe (not shown) and a second mass adjacent to the esophagus (indicated with an asterisk). Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2009 4, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e3181ad81ac) Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

3 FIGURE 2 Case 2: a patient with squamous cell lung carcinoma of the left lower lobe (not shown) and on CT scan a lymph node in the paraesophageal level (level 8L; indicated with an asterisk) and left hilum (level 11L). Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2009 4, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e3181ad81ac) Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions


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