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Dissection and 2-Photon Imaging of Peripheral Lymph Nodes in Mice
Published on: August 23, 2007
Left systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection
Charalambos Zisis1, Nikolaos Papakonstantinou1, Evangelia Liverakou2
1Cardiothoracic Surgery Department General Hospital of Athens "Evangelismos'' Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
Sampling, or systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection, is the standard-of-care surgical treatment for early stage non-small cell lung cancer, according to guidelines from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Lymph node status defines disease status and patients' prognosis. In this video tutorial, a radical ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node dissection in a man suffering from a left, centrally located lung adenocarcinoma is presented. Systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection constitutes a high-quality metric for the efficacy of the surgical procedure and is essential to achieving adequate staging and treatment.
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