PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - I Rubinstein
AU  - G L Baum
AU  - Y Kalter
AU  - Y Pauzner
AU  - Y Lieberman
AU  - J J Bubis
TI  - Resectional surgery in the treatment of primary carcinoma of the lung with mediastinal lymph node metastases.
AID  - 10.1136/thx.34.1.33
DP  - 1979 Feb 01
TA  - Thorax
PG  - 33--35
VI  - 34
IP  - 1
4099  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/34/1/33.short
4100  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/34/1/33.full
SO  - Thorax1979 Feb 01; 34
AB  - Between 1966 and 1970 we reviewed 46 consecutive patients undergoing resection for primary carcinoma of the lung, in whom mediastinal lymph node metastases were found at operation. There was one operative death. Five of the remaining 45 patients survived five years--one of 10 cases of large cell carcinoma, one of 19 cases of adenocarcinoma, and three of 12 cases of epidermoid carcinoma. We believe that mediastinal lymph node metastases are not per se a contraindication to resection of epidermoid carcinoma of the lung.