Staging: The key to rational management of lung cancer

A New International Staging System for Lung Cancer

1986 • 1,652 citations

Prognosis and survival in resected lung carcinoma based on the new international staging system

1988 • 708 citations

Significance of positive superior mediastinal nodes identified at mediastinoscopy in patients with resectable cancer of the lung

1982 • 410 citations

Results of Resection in Non-Oat Cell Carcinoma of the Lung with Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastases

1983 • 373 citations

Treatment of the Superior Sulcus Tumor by Irradiation Followed by Resection

1961 • 354 citations

The Importance of Surgery to Non-Small Cell Carcinoma of Lung with Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastasis

1988 • 303 citations

Prospective evaluation of mediastinoscopy for assessment of carcinoma of the lung

1986 • 255 citations

Bronchogenic Carcinoma with Chest Wall Invasion: Factors Affecting Survival Following en Bloc Resection

1982 • 202 citations

Diagnostic Anterior Mediastinotomy

1969 • 200 citations

Role of Mediastinoscopy in Pretreatment Staging of Patients with Primary Lung Cancer

1985 • 192 citations

Pleural and chest wall invasion in bronchogenic carcinoma: CT evaluation.

1985 • 187 citations

Extended cervical mediastinoscopy

1987 • 185 citations

Chest wall invasion in carcinoma of the lung

1985 • 183 citations

Significance of Metastatic Disease in Subaortic Lymph Nodes

1987 • 168 citations

Wedge resection as an alternative procedure for peripheral bronchogenic carcinoma in poor-risk patients

1985 • 166 citations

A prospective evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and mediastinoscopy in the preoperative assessment of mediastinal node status in bronchogenic carcinoma

1987 • 161 citations

Extended cervical mediastinoscopy. A single staging procedure for bronchogenic carcinoma of the left upper lobe

1989 • 158 citations

Indeterminate mediastinal invasion in bronchogenic carcinoma: CT evaluation.

1989 • 148 citations

Sleeve lobectomy for carcinoma of the lung

1979 • 137 citations

Surgical Approach to Lung Cancer with Solitary Cerebral Metastasis: Twenty-Five Years' Experience

1986 • 134 citations

The significance of ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node metastasis (N2 disease) in non-small cell carcinoma of the lung. A commentary.

1990 • 132 citations

The role of mediastinoscopy in the selection of treatment for bronchial carcinoma with involvement of superior mediastinal lymph nodes

1972 • 131 citations

Chest wall invasion by lung cancer: limitations of CT evaluation

1985 • 122 citations

The Value of Adjuvant Radiotherapy in Pulmonary and Chest Wall Resection for Bronchogenic Carcinoma

1982 • 117 citations

Bronchoplastic and angioplastic operation in bronchial carcinoma: long-term results of a retrospective analysis from 1973 to 1983.

1986 • 116 citations

Multiorgan scans for staging lung cancer. Correlation with clinical evaluation.

1977 • 111 citations

The significance of ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node metastasis (N2 disease) in non-small cell carcinoma of the lung

1990 • 106 citations

Carcinoma of the Superior Pulmonary Sulcus

1979 • 104 citations

Tracheal Sleeve Pneumonectomy for Bronchogenic Carcinoma: Report of 55 Cases

1988 • 99 citations

Survival in patients undergoing tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy for bronchogenic carcinoma

1982 • 97 citations

Multiorgan scans for staging lung cancer

1977 • 97 citations

Long-term clinical and functional results of sleeve lobectomy for primary lung cancer

1986 • 94 citations

Can computed tomography of the chest stage lung cancer?—Yes and no

1990 • 92 citations

Management of tumor adherent to the vertebral column

1989 • 92 citations

En bloc (non-chest wall) resection for bronchogenic carcinoma with parietal fixation

1984 • 88 citations

Surgery and the management of peripheral lung tumors adherent to the parietal pleura

1992 • 88 citations

An evaluation of mediastinoscopy in the management of presumably operable bronchial carcinoma

1968 • 81 citations

Extended operation for lung cancer invading the aortic arch and superior vena cava

1989 • 80 citations

The value of mediastinoscopy in preoperative staging of bronchogenic carcinoma

1989 • 56 citations

Current Controversies in Thoracic Surgery

1987 • 48 citations

Sleeve Pneumonectomy for Bronchogenic Carcinoma

1979 • 47 citations

Bronchoplastic and Bronchovascular Procedures of the Tracheobronchial Tree in the Management of Primary Lung Cancer

1989 • 37 citations

The Contribution of Anterior Mediastinotorny in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Diseases of the Mediastinum and Lung

1987 • 34 citations

Neoadjuvant Therapy of Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

1988 • 30 citations

Limited Resection in the Treatment of Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer; An Overview

1989 • 29 citations

Treatment of Bronchogenic Carcinoma with Chest Wall Invasion

1987 • 28 citations

Lung Cancer

1986 • 25 citations

Lung cancer. The past twenty-five years

1986 • 21 citations

Lung cancer involving the superior vena cava: Pneumonectomy with concomitant partial resection of superior vena cava

1979 • 21 citations

Cost-effectiveness of CT scanning compared with mediastinoscopy in the preoperative staging of lung cancer.

1989 • 17 citations

Bronchoplastic and bronchovascular procedures of the tracheobronchial tree in the management of primary lung cancer

1989 • 16 citations

Incidence of mediastinal node involvement in clinical T1 bronchogenic carcinomas.

1987 • 15 citations

Extended Operations for T3-T4 Primary Lung Cancers

1989 • 13 citations

Chest Wall Invasion in Carcinoma of the Lung: Therapeutic and Prognostic Implication

1993 • 4 citations

Reply

1991 • 2 citations

Mediastinoscopy: Not Needed Preoperatively in CT-Negative Lung Carcinoma?

1989 • 1 citations