Current Concepts in the Mediastinal Lymph Node Staging of Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer

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  2003

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  Annals of Surgery

• Publication date

  2003-08-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/01.SLA.0000081086.37779.1aPMID 12894010PMCID PMC1422673
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