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. 1979 Feb;34(1):33–35. doi: 10.1136/thx.34.1.33

Resectional surgery in the treatment of primary carcinoma of the lung with mediastinal lymph node metastases.

I Rubinstein, G L Baum, Y Kalter, Y Pauzner, Y Lieberman, J J Bubis
PMCID: PMC471003  PMID: 441998

Abstract

Between 1966 and 1970 we reviewed 46 consecutive patients undergoing resection for primary carcinoma of the lung, in whom mediastinal lymph node metastases were found at operation. There was one operative death. Five of the remaining 45 patients survived five years--one of 10 cases of large cell carcinoma, one of 19 cases of adenocarcinoma, and three of 12 cases of epidermoid carcinoma. We believe that mediastinal lymph node metastases are not per se a contraindication to resection of epidermoid carcinoma of the lung.

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