Unknown Primary Malignancy Metastatic to Thoracic Lymph Nodes Marc Riquet Eugenia Banu Christophe Foucault Some 3% to 6% of cancers present as metastatic lesions from an occult primary tumor,4,14,19,47 making…
Lymph Node Dissection for Lung Cancer Hisao Asamura Historical Note The role of mediastinal/hilar lymph node dissection (LND) in the staging and treatment of lung cancer remains controversial. In particular,…
Surgical Treatment of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Joseph LoCicero III Using statistics from the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data, Ries et al.231 reported that 215,020…
Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer Carolyn E. Reed Gerard A. Silvestri Once the radiographic (see Chapter 108) or clinical presentation (see Chapter 107) raises the possibility of lung cancer,…
Radiologic Evaluation of Lung Cancer Patrick J. Fultz Richard H. Feins The radiologic evaluation of lung cancer is directed at determining the best means for diagnosing and staging the cancer…
Clinical Presentation of Lung Cancer Matthew G. Blum As one of the most common malignancies in the world, lung cancer presents with widely varied signs, symptoms, and syndromes. Some 93%…
Present Concepts in the Molecular Biology of Lung Cancer David H. Harpole Jr. Mark Onaitis Over the past decade, the study of cancer has increasingly focused upon molecular causes. This…
Pathology of Carcinoma of the Lung Thomas W. Shields Derivation of Tumor Cell Types In the normal lung, stem cell activity, according to Otto and Wright,204 involves three cell types:…
The Sentinel Lymph Node in Non-Small-Cell Carcinoma of the Lung Michael J. Liptay The concept of a sentinel node associated with primary solid tumors was initially put forth by Cabanas…
Investigation and Management of Nodules Less than One Centimeter in Size Ryosuke Tsuchiya Computed tomography (CT) has been used to evaluate patients suspected of having a solitary pulmonary nodule. Muhm…
