New aspects in the staging of lung cancer. Prospective validation of the International Union Against Cancer TNM classification.

H, Bülzebruck; R, Bopp; P, Drings; E, Bauer; S, Krysa; G, Probst; Kaick G, van; KM, Müller; I, Vogt-Moykopf

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19920901)70:5<1102::aid-cncr2820700514>3.0.co;2-5

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New aspects in the staging of lung cancer. Prospective validation of the International Union Against Cancer TNM classification.

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Bülzebruck H

Bopp R

Drings P

Abstract

Background and methods To validate the new TNM definitions for lung cancer (International Union Against Cancer [UICC] TNM classification, 4th edition, 1987), the data of 3823 patients were analyzed prospectively in terms of concordance between clinical (TNM) and pathologically confirmed classificati...

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