Supraclavicular lymph node incisional biopsies have no influence on the prognosis of advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients: a retrospective study
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- 作者：Song Dong ; Ning Zhao ; Wei Deng ; Hui-wen Sun…
- 关键词：Non ; small cell lung cancer ; Supraclavicular lymph node ; Incisional biopsy
- 刊名：World Journal of Surgical Oncology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：439KB
- 刊物主题：Surgical Oncology;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1477-7819
- 卷排序：15
文摘
BackgroundSupraclavicular lymph node (SCLN) biopsies play an important role in diagnosing and staging lung cancer. However, not all patients with SCLN metastasis can have a complete resection. It is still unknown whether SCLN incisional biopsies affect the prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.