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ArticleInterdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery2024

Spirited discussion: lymph node count versus nodal station count.

Paula Duarte D'Ambrosio, Arthur Vieira, Paula Ugalde Figueroa

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Article in Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Local Control by Mediastinal Lymph-Node Dissection in Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Paula Duarte D'AmbrosioDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-9901-3973
Arthur VieiraDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire Régional-Université de Montréal, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2683-5455
Paula Ugalde FigueroaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4284-444X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Cancer-related mortality riskcardiac diseasesChronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseExamined lymph nodesNon-small cell lung cancer

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PMID38331402
PMCPMC10873902

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