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[Assessment of prognosis and p 53 mutations in patients with multiple tumors of the lung; intrapulmonary metastasis or double primary cancers?].
Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery - 1 Jan 2002
Osaki T, Oyama T, Takenoyama M, Taga S, So T, Yamashita T, Nakata S, Sugio K, Yasumoto K
Abstract excerpt
To assess whether a satellite lesion in the primary-tumor lobe is intrapulmonary metastasis from primary cancer (pm 1) or they are double primary lung cancers, we examined the postoperative prognosis of patients with pm 1 and the p 53 genetic differentiation between a satellite lesion and a primary lesion. Of 772 consecutive patients with N0-2M0 non-small cell lung cancer who underwent surgical resections between...
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