Abstract:Background. Lung cancer occupies the leading place in the structure of cancer incidence and death rate. Treatment results are still not satisfactory. Five-year postsurgical survival rate is 24–30%. Patients die in different periods of time from local recurrences and distant metastases. To this day, there is no unambiguous attitude towards ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node dissection in surgical treatment of patients with lung cancer. Despite the oncologic relevance of the abovementioned lymph node dissection,… Show more
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