title: The role of videomediastinoscopy in staging of non-small cell lung cancer.
abstract: Lung cancer is the most frequent malignant disease and the leading cause of death from malignant diseases in the world and its incidence is increasing. At the time when diagnosis is established most patients have advanced disease and are not candidates for radical surgical treatment. Patients without distant metastases are subjected to various diagnostic methods to detect metastases in mediastinal lymph nodes that make up the path of lymph drainage from the lungs. The most reliable invasive diagnostic procedures for detecting metastases in mediastinal lymph nodes are videomediastinoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound with transtracheal puncture. In the absence of mediastinal lymph node metastases surgery is the treatment of choice. If mediastinal lymph nodes are positive for metastases multimodal treatment is implemented. At the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zadar General Hospital, videomediastinoscopy for the staging of primary non-small cell lung cancer has been performed routinely since September 2009.
authors: Zadar General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Zadar, Croatia. ivan.bacic21@zd.t-com.hr
authors: Ivan
authors: I
authors: Bacić
authors: Rade
authors: R
authors: Skarica
authors: Nina
authors: N
authors: Sulen
authors: Zvonko
authors: Z
authors: Zadro
authors: Natasa
authors: N
authors: Lisica-Sikić
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Karlo
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Petani
mesh_terms: D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008481:Mediastinoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014741:Video Recording