title: Clinical experience in staging of lung cancer at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
abstract: Staging of lung cancer needs an accurate diagnostic programme resulting in therapeutic and prognostic consequences. A modern, articulate flow-chart is presented and discussed. As a result, the rate of exploratory thoracotomy was reduced from 15.1% in 1988 to 2.1% in 1997 and the rate of resectability raised up to 30%. Preoperative over-staging was found in about 25% and the same value for understaging. Looking to the N-values, there was concordance of clinical and postoperative data in 61.9% of cases.
authors.affiliation: Section of Thoracic Surgery, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Neef
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008481:Mediastinoscopy; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed