TY - JOUR
T1 - Upper abdominal computerized tomography scanning in staging non-small cell lung carcinoma
AU - Chapman, Geoffrey S.
AU - Kumar, Dharmendra
AU - Redmond, John
AU - Munderloh, Stephen H.
AU - Gandara, David R
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - During preoperative staging the authors performed upper abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scanning in 38 patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma. Five of the 38 patients had occult adrenal metastases based on CT images. Two of these five patients, who would otherwise have been surgical candidates for definitive thoracotomy, underwent percutaneous fine-needle aspiration cytology of the suspected adrenal metastases. Cytology results in both cases were positive for metastatic carcinoma, thereby precluding thoracotomy. Upper abdominal CT scanning may optimize preoperative staging of the selected non-small cell lung cancer patients.
AB - During preoperative staging the authors performed upper abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scanning in 38 patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma. Five of the 38 patients had occult adrenal metastases based on CT images. Two of these five patients, who would otherwise have been surgical candidates for definitive thoracotomy, underwent percutaneous fine-needle aspiration cytology of the suspected adrenal metastases. Cytology results in both cases were positive for metastatic carcinoma, thereby precluding thoracotomy. Upper abdominal CT scanning may optimize preoperative staging of the selected non-small cell lung cancer patients.
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U2 - 10.1002/1097-0142(19841015)54:8<1541::AID-CNCR2820540812>3.0.CO;2-N
DO - 10.1002/1097-0142(19841015)54:8<1541::AID-CNCR2820540812>3.0.CO;2-N
M3 - Article
C2 - 6478395
AN - SCOPUS:0021213743
VL - 54
SP - 1541
EP - 1543
JO - Cancer
JF - Cancer
SN - 0008-543X
IS - 8
ER -