Postoperative surveillance following lung cancer resection.
The purpose of this article is to review routine clinical surveillance testing regimens used in the past and those currently being practiced. In addition, the authors predict follow-up strategies that will be routinely practiced within the next decade.
Naunheim
K S
KS
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. naunheim@slu.edu
Virgo
K S
KS
D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011182:Postoperative Care