Early stage lung cancer with nodal involvement occult to PET-CT: treat the image or treat the disease?

J Thorac Dis

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery and Tumors, Oncology Centre, Prof. Łukaszczyk Memorial Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland ; 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery and Tumors, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland ; 3 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Dr Antoni Jurasz Memorial University Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland ; 4 Division of Ergonomics and Physical Effort Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics, Collegium Medicum UMK, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Published: December 2015

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