Mediastinal Lymph Node Stations
Stations are usually assigned in clinical radiology practice manually by qualitative visual assessment on CT scans, which is time consuming and highly variable. In this paper, we developed a method that automatically recognizes the lymph node stations in thoracic CT scans based on the anatomical ...
Mediastinal lymph node sampling is critical to the initial diagnosis and staging of lung and esophageal cancers and lymphoma. Additionally, it is essential for detecting primary or recurrent nodal metastases in extrathoracic malignancies. This can be done by a variety of techniques employed by a vari...
Full minimally invasive evaluation of all lymph node stations (with the exception of station 6) is now possible with the advent of endobronchial and trans -esophageal endoscopic ultrasound. Endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) allows sampling of mediastinal lymph nodes relevant to ...
Objective: Decision making about clinically significant lymph nodes (LN) is crucial. We elaborated the mediastinal LNs based on location, size and age groups. Material and Method: Contrast enhanced chest computed tomography scans of 150 children who were referred to the radiology department after trau...
Lymph Node Stations In the 1970s, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) introduced a numeric system for localization of intrathoracic lymph nodes for the purpose of lung cancer staging. Lymph nodes were described relative to regions in...
(stations #10, 11, 12) included among positive lymph nodes, or as the only positive lymph node.In the second group,23 harbored metastatic disease (18.9%),14 (60.9%) of the positive cases had positive sentinel nodes included among positive lymph nodes, or as the only positive lymph node....
All lymph node stations but the para-aortic are accessible by a combination of endoscopic ultrasound and endobronchial ultrasound. We recently described an... M Liberman,A Duranceau,E Grunenwald,... - 《Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery》 被引量: 36发表: 2012年 Bronchoscopic Needle As...
Between December 2003 and June 2006 at the University of California at Davis Cancer Center, a total of 142 patients underwent surgical mediastinal lymph node biopsy, with an average of 4 mediastinal lymph node stations sampled. Of the 32 patients excluded from this study, 19 either did not have...
(2009) 18F-FDG PET/CT in mediastinal lymph node staging of non-small-cell lung cancer in a tuberculosis-endemic country: consideration of lymph node calcification and distribution pattern to improve specificity. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 36 , 1794-1802 /...