General Internal Medicine

Small cell lung cancer

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Do you do recommend further mediastinal staging for patients with SCLC or inoperable NSCLC with N1 disease on PET?

If a patient clearly has N1 disease with high SUV on PET, do you routinely recommend EBUS or mediastinoscopy to evaluate for N2 disease?

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Papers discussed in this category

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2010-06-01

Selective nodal irradiation on basis of (18)FDG-PET scans in limited-disease small-cell lung cancer: a prospective study.

Thorac Cancer, 2017 Apr 24

Relationship between endobronchial ultrasound-guided (EBUS)-transbronchial needle aspiration utility and computed tomography staging, node size at EBUS, and positron emission tomography scan node standard uptake values: A retrospective analysis.

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