title: Preoperative CT examination for staging of mediastinal lymph-nodes in patients with (operable) non-small cell lung cancer.
abstract: In a prospective study of 100 and a retrospective study of 90 patients with non small cell lung cancer, the usefulness of CT in the preoperative staging of mediastinal lymph nodes was examined. The long-term prognostic value of CT was also investigated. Our results suggest that, using 1.5 cm as a criterion of size for malignancy, CT can be useful in the selection of patients for mediastinoscopy. CT can always help the surgeon in the mediastinal exploration but the long-term prognostic value is limited after the surgical-pathologic diagnosis has been made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals K. U. Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Verschakelen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Deneffe
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Baert
mesh_terms: D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed