Dual intervention with a lymph node (LN) specimen collection kit and enhanced specimen dissection to improve staging of resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Abstract:7569 Background: LN metastasis impairs survival of resectable NSCLC, but routine pathologic nodal staging is suboptimal. We tested the impact of a dual intervention (a surgical specimen collection kit with specific, pre-labeled LN collection cups, to improve intraoperative hilar/mediastinal LN dissection; and a fastidious gross dissection of the resected lung specimen for perihilar/intrapulmonary LNs) on the rate of detection of LN metastasis. Methods: We matched dual intervention cases with controls performe… Show more
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